In the installation Sub Persona artists’ collective PLATEAURESIDUE whose practice usually interlaces ecology and art examines the state of forest ecosystems and the human impact on them. The artists Aljaž Celarc & Eva Pavlič Seifert collaborated with people who are involved in maintaining forests and have differing opinions about how they should be managed and perceived. It is precisely the tradition of encroaching upon and exploiting forests that dictates the responsibility of mankind to manage them in a sustainable way, to take care of the consequences of bad practice and to eliminate the effects of climate change. 

PLATEAURESIDUE is the imaginary identity of geographer and artist Aljaž Celarc and art historian Eva Pavlič Seifert. Their practice is concerned with exploring landscape ecology and uses new media to search for new ways of raising public awareness. Accordingly, they always give a voice to the participants in their projects, natural forms such as rocks, air, organisms and other units of matter, which they reorganise into new unusual forms and new media systems. The artist duo lives and works in Novi Kot, in the hinterland of the forests of Mount Gotenica and Snežnik Plateau.

Curator of the exhibition: Miha Colner