ENTER HERE | Gaia Radić: The Hanging "Gardens" of Babylon

Join us for the opening of Gaia Radić's exhibition, 'The Hanging “Gardens” of Babylon,' on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, from 6 to 9 pm, or any Wednesday during gallery opening hours. The exhibition runs until March 10, 2024.
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ENTER HERE | Gaia Radić
The Hanging “Gardens” of Babylon
Curated by Lara Mejač
17/01 — 10/03/2024
By creating immersive environments, visual artist Gaia Radić explores the relationships between virtual, psychological and physical spaces. In the ambient spatial installation Hanging "Gardens" of Babylon, she reflects on the connections between the legend of the Tower of Babel and its gardens and the present-day use of technology to go beyond physical bodily states. The oasis of a lush digital garden with intertwined branches of cables and simulations of Babylonian fruits is thus not a re-telling of a mythological story or speculation of the future, but a poetic meditation on the eternal human desire to transcend mortality.
The exhibition series Enter here reveals the hidden spaces of RAVNIKAR in new ways. By using speculative methods, worldbuilding, storytelling or new technologies, artists imagine different worlds and create fictional scenarios as a unique response to current social, environmental, technological and political situations. The project space is thus transformed into ambient spatial interventions and immersive multi-media installations, and in the form of an unusal portal opens up different ways into virtual, fictional, unknown or yet unexplored worlds.
Gaia Radić (2001) graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, and is currently enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and Video, Animation and New Media department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. So far she has exhibited in five solo and more than thirty group exhibitions in Croatia and Slovenia, including Karas Gallery in Zagreb, 63rd Poreč Annale, and Kortil Gallery in Rijeka. She has collaborated with the Centre for Innovative Media (CIM APURI), UR Institute from Dubrovnik, the organisation siva/zona from Korcula and the Metamedij association from Pula. She is the winner of the second Erste Prize for the 36th Youth Salon in Zagreb and was also a finalist of the Golden Watermelon 6.0 Award for young artists. She is the youngest member of the Association of Croatian Artists of Istria. In addition to numerous exhibitions, she has also held several educational workshops and lectures on virtual space and 3D modelling.

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ENTER HERE | Gaia Radić
Babilonski viseči “vrtovi”
Lara Mejač, kuratorka razstave
17/01 — 10/03/2024
Z ustvarjanjem potopitvenih okolji vizualna umetnica Gaia Radić raziskuje razmerja med virtualnimi, mentalnimi in fizičnimi prostori. V ambientalni prostorski postavitvi Babilonski viseči “vrtovi” razmišlja o povezavah med legendo o babilonskem stolpu in njegovih vrtovih ter sodobno uporabo tehnologije z namenom izstopanja iz fizičnih telesnih stanj. Oaza bujnega digitalnega vrta s prepletenimi vejami kablov in simulacijami babilonskih sadežev tako ni spekulacija prihodnosti ali poustvarjanje mitološke zgodbe, temveč poetična meditacija o večni človeški želji po preseganju smrtnosti.
Razstavni cikel Enter here na nove načine razkriva skrite prostore galerije RAVNIKAR. Umetnice in umetniki si s spekulativnimi metodami, grajenjem svetov, pripovedovanjem zgodb ali uporabo novih tehnologij zamišljajo drugačne svetove in ustvarjajo fiktivne scenarije, kot svojevrsten odziv na aktualne družbene, okoljske, tehnološke in politične situacije. Projektni prostor tako preobražajo v ambientalne prostorske intervencije in potopitvene večmedijske instalacije, ki v obliki nenavadnega portala odpirajo pot v virtualne, fiktivne, neznane ali še neraziskane svetove.
Gaia Radić (2001) je leta 2023 je zaključila dodiplomski študij kiparstva na Akademiji za uporabno umetnost na Reki, trenutno pa je vpisana na študij arhitekture na Fakulteti za arhitekturo v Ljubljani in magistrski študij na oddelku Video, animacija in novi mediji na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti in oblikovanja v Ljubljani. Doslej je razstavljala na petih samostojnih in več kot tridesetih skupinskih razstavah na Hrvaškem in v Sloveniji, med drugim v zagrebški galeriji Karas, na 63. Poreškem analu, Galeriji Kortil na Reki. Sodelovala je s Centrom za inovativne medije (CIM APURI), UR Institutom iz Dubrovnika, organizacijo siva/zona iz Korčule in društvom Metamedij iz Pule. Je dobitnica druge Erste nagrade 36. Salona mladih in finalistka nagrade Zlata lubenica 6.0 za mlade umetnike. Je najmlajša članica Društva hrvaških likovnih umetnikov Istre. Poleg številnih razstav je izvedla tudi več izobraževalnih delavnic in predavanj na temo virtualnega prostora in 3D modeliranja.

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