Opening of the exhibition by Helena Tahir and Damijan Kracina

You are cordially invited to the opening of two simultaneous exhibitions at MGLC Švicarija in Ljubljana on Wednesday, 5 February 2025, at 6 pm, showing projects by two artists working at MGLC Švicarija: Helena Tahir, The Last Sector II and Damijan Kracina, Navigation.

Helena Tahir works in the field of printmaking, painting and drawing. This year she is completing a two-year Young Artists Residency at MGLC Švicarija. The Last Sector is a series developed by the artist over the long term as an intimate return to the silenced past of her father and his homeland, the country of Iraq. It comprises photographs, prints with embroidery, an artist’s book, video, archival material and drawings made with indigo paper. The works are symbols of memories, now revealed and transformed into a coherent nevertheless still fragmented narrative of a family.

Damijan Kracina is a sculptor whose multimedia practice presents possible and utopian scenarios of life on Earth. His exhibitions are imaginary ambiences and fantastical worlds that each time create new dialogues between the works, the space and the visitors. At MGLC Švicarija, he presents a charcoal drawing in the vertical space of the former hotel. The piece portrays a navigation of inorganic and organic forms, typographic signs and compasses, which are intended to steer the ship we f ind ourselves on, increasingly heading in an unknown, off-course direction.

Curator: Dušan Dovč

The two exhibitions are part of the series From the Studios, which presents the current practice of the artists working at MGLC Švicarija.