NoWhere/NowHere
Art Hotel Tartini, Piran 2018
Monumental Site-specific Installation and Performance
This monumental project represents a philosophical examination of transient private and collective spaces realized within the Art Hotel Tartini. Conceptualized as a cohesive site-specific work, it constitutes a sustained meditation on the relationship between art and architecture, utopia and reality. The project utilized the existing architectural frame—a site concentrated with the accumulation of the past—as an archive and a challenge. The approach was archeological, involving the deliberate removal of material layers to reach a state of whiteness: an immaculate, raw canvas that permits light and air to generate a new aesthetic imprint. This deconstruction/reconstruction asserted that the space/art dynamic is a constant, reciprocal articulation. The central element was a large-scale glass installation—a half-ton of broken glass suspended from the ceiling. This frozen rain functioned as a sublime, yet constantly threatening presence, generating an intentional tension between beauty and menace that serves as a political statement on shared vulnerability. The project also utilized invisible writing and whispers to create a narrative of fiction and palimpsest, transforming the concept of "NoWhere" into a palpable experience of the ephemeral: "NowHere."
Photos by Urša Premik