EKO 9 Triennial of Art and Environment
Date Issued
May 2024
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Abstract
From folktales and the origins of modern horror in
literature and film to contemporary art forms, the horror
genre has always possessed the potential to address human
and societal fears. With the exhibition Eyes in the Stone, we
give power to the primary emotion of fear to jolt us from our
numbness to seemingly failing warnings of science. The
artists in the exhibition respond in form and narrative to
the threatening atmosphere in nature and culture. In the
new venue of the EKO Triennial – the old sanatorium of Dr
Mirko Černić in the centre of Maribor – we present artworks
which through use of shock, a sense of dread, disquiet and
despondency, as well as critical reflection, offer a chance at
catharsis in the face of environmental collapse.
literature and film to contemporary art forms, the horror
genre has always possessed the potential to address human
and societal fears. With the exhibition Eyes in the Stone, we
give power to the primary emotion of fear to jolt us from our
numbness to seemingly failing warnings of science. The
artists in the exhibition respond in form and narrative to
the threatening atmosphere in nature and culture. In the
new venue of the EKO Triennial – the old sanatorium of Dr
Mirko Černić in the centre of Maribor – we present artworks
which through use of shock, a sense of dread, disquiet and
despondency, as well as critical reflection, offer a chance at
catharsis in the face of environmental collapse.
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