Čigon, Ana; Jurišić, Leja; Reba, Teja; Kapelj Osredkar, Barbara
No. 1127
"Ljubljana City of Women"
Artist: Čigon, Ana; Jurišić, Leja; Reba, Teja; Kapelj Osredkar, Barbara
 
Title: Ljubljana City of Women
Duration: 00:09:02
Year: 2013
Genre: Art video
Production: Mednarodni festival sodobnih umetnosti – Mesto žensk

 
SYNOPSIS

In the video action, Barbara Kapelj Osredkar and Teja Reba asked passers-by on the streets of Ljubljana whether they know about a monument in Ljubljana that would be dedicated to female personality and which woman would they choose if they could decide. The video picture on the other hand shows adapted existing monuments, transformed and dedicated to women in various places in Ljubljana. Monuments do not really exist, but they were computer-generated so that the images of existing sculptures dedicated to other (male) person were changed with the help of tools usually used by photographers and designers in the beauty industry to eradicate wrinkles. The statue of Simon Gregorčič was, e.g. transformed into a statue of Zofka Kveder, a statue of Dr. Fran Ramovš into the statue of Ljuba Prenner, Ivan Cankar into Ita Rina, Dr. France Kidrič into Franja Tavčar and Jenko Davorin into Valery Heybal. The video is a critic of under-representation of women in public monuments in Ljubljana. It is a part of the project I’m Walking Behind You and Watching You, a female map of the city in which memory holders form the missing and ignored stories of women who worked their way through the city, created it, swore by it and breathed it, as well as those who migrated to it every day. If the Slovenian capital has as many as 360 monuments of local significance, what is the number of annotations mentioning women? (source: Ana Čigon)



 
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