On 9 May at 6 pm, Danas Aleksa's solo exhibition "Landscape at 8 km/h" will be opened at the gallery (AV17).
Danas Aleksa is a conceptual interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, object, performance and video art. The main axes of the artist's work are time and place and their interrelation. In his work, the artist analyses the environment around him, social and virtual spaces, and highlights fragments of everyday situations related to them. Dan Aleksa often refuses to be a straightforward questioner and a passive observer and perceives himself as a participant in these actions. By disturbing the surrounding context in various ways, he awaits the final response, thus assessing the individual and societal significance in the processes of events. By becoming part of the work or its creation, Dan Aleksa attempts to perceive his own identity as an artist and that of others in various social realities.
In the exhibition Landscape at 8 km/h, Dan Aleksa will present his latest works - object, video and sound installations that analyse the movement and the perception of oneself in the surrounding environment. The exhibition presents themes that have never lost their relevance and are constantly rethought in the history of culture, the connections of which can be found in a quote from Milan Kundera's novel Immortality: 'The highway itself has no meaning; only the points it connects have meaning. And the road is the glorification of space. Each piece of the road is significant and calls us to stop." For the exhibition, Dan Aleksa has drawn on his personal experiences of running around different cities and experiencing their urban plan. The fragmented journeys expressed in the gallery halls and the kismet of the planned path, created by various circumstances, subtly touch on the themes of self-knowledge in space and time. Identity issues are highlighted through the use of easily identifiable objects, such as Nike sneakers, which become a kind of social shell for the runner, allowing them to feel safe in unfamiliar contexts. The eternal theme of travel in the artist's work is revealed in the context of contemporary processes - the artist does not limit himself to physically visited spaces, but also appreciates the experience of technological possibilities, when we know a place before we have been there. Dan Aleksa draws the viewer into the dynamic atmosphere of the exhibition and encourages them to reflect on their own relationship to the ever-changing environment around them.
