Code L - Fragments is a video installation created by two synchronized projections onto transparent screens. They integrate shadows and silhouettes of visitors and reflections of the architectural elements into the body of the installation. What emerges is a space-inside-of-space into which the visitors enter. According to the curator Peter Tomaz Dobrila, “The artist used to place humans at the center of the natural environment in her earlier works, reappropriating the image of the human body by emphasizing certain parts, such as eyes. In her recent works, however, the human figure blends with the environment; it becomes a body - shadow, moving across the given ambience. The internalization of this relationship unravels the corporeality, unlocks the interior, and highlights the intimacy of the experience. The figures are abstracted into ephemeral creatures, who transcend into eternity of existence and offer the viewer a space for reflection.”
The artist is presenting a selection from a new series of videos, which she originally recorded for Milko Lazar's new opera Code L. Inspired by Roland Barthes' Fragments of Lover’s Discourse, it is fueled by myths, archetypes, philosophical works, and the intimate. (Source: Nataša Prosenc Stearns)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 1999
Images of fire, earth, sand and snow, spinning and disappearing in a circular motion. (Source: DIVA Station) Vortex was part of a larger installation project Gladiators by Nataša Prosenc Stearns at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999.
Production: Center RTV Maribor, TV Slovenija, 1997
The video focuses on the concept of skin, which is the borderline between the body and its surroundings. The picture consciously rejects all sophisticated visual manipulation and instead uses basic visual effects: the play of light and shadow, and colour...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, TV Slovenija, 1997
Leadership, the leading of masses, is a trauma rooted in the psyche of people living in post-Communist societies. Whose marionettes are we, and how free can our decisions be? These are questions of universal significance. The images of crowds, who in the...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 1997
A two-channel video installation depicting the story of Sisyphus. (Source: DIVA Station)
Production: TV Slovenija, 1995
This video in black-and-white presents people participating in mass rituals, primarily wars and the glorification of leaders, which are constant and universal documents of the world. The global and temporal association of these images is emphasised by the...
Production: TV Slovenija, 1995
The idea of time connects with the image inherent in video, the encrustation of the picture, which allows for the free exchange of images from different worlds and periods. The double silhouette of a person delineates two time segments: the passing of dai...
Production: TV Slovenija, 1995
A man and a woman aim to fulfil their desire for power, beauty, supremacy and other similar human attributes. The male and the female are represented through archetypal images: a strong man's body fighting against the crude force of nature, and a woman's...
Production: TV Slovenija, 1995
A woman's shoe gets stuck in concrete in the middle of the city. Her usual rhythm of life is disturbed. She is impatient to solve the problem. But a string of unexpected events interferes with her plans. Her world of fast living, obligations and errands t...
Production: TV Slovenija, 1994
The video film replicates the labyrinth presented in the installation of the same title. Bricks are placed on the floor, and they pass into the labyrinth on the screen. The figures never come from 'behind the walls' of the labyrinth, we can only hear the...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 1994
The back of a female torso moves against a black background, isolated from the rest of the body. By choosing to depict only the back, the artist highlights the relentless scrutiny of women, emphasizing the dual pressure on them to exist simultaneously as...
Production: Mladinski program TV Slovenija, 1992
The eternal issue of the relation between the sexes is presented by pairs and accentuated by the details which are doubled. In the foreground we see fish ('real' fish, or a graphic sign), and from time to time they completely fill the screen. The video im...



















































