(continuation of the project from ©kofja Loka (2006) with the same title)
(While the Slovenian word "odpri" does translate as open, the word "od" also means "from" and the word "pri" can be understood as "at", "beside", "near" or "close to".)
2011, Ljubljana, Gallery Equrna, multimedia installation.
The O...pen exhibition is divided into two parts: in the first part bronze sculptures were placed on pipes of various lengths - some of them at eye level and some of them higher up. Some are thus "close" and some "far" from us, as the title "od" (far from) "pri" (close to) suggests. This first part of the exhibition serves as an introduction into questions about the beginning of individual life, the story of our family and inherited cultural and natural heritage and our responsibility about this inheritance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrORKprd43E and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHKz425M13Q
In the second space two straight lines of white boxes are positioned near the walls. Sterile, white-coloured boxes without any visual content were used as plinths at the beginning of the 20th century, reflecting the modernistic desire for a utopian ideal and abstract purity of the new world that should replace traditional (religious, aesthetical) thought. Near the centre of either of the two walls there is a box that is bigger than the others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ZDaPkn7L4
The box at the entrance wall is the only box which is actually used as a base or plinth for some kind of a "sculpture". On the box there is a mould of a person made of artificial silicone. The mould is turned inside out, the title "Figure out" pointing to its equivocal meaning. In the interior of this plinth a computer is installed with a slide show of different images from contemporary history alongside art from the past that portrays related events (such as burning of cows with BSE and cattle images from prehistoric art). The "Figure out" sculpture is meant to be the starting point for the rest of the exhibition.
Clean, almost sterile white boxes are placed in straight
lines indicating modern logic and (post)modern desire for
denying tradition. The boxes have small “doors” so they
can be opened and visitors can search their interiors instead
of observing the sculptures on top of them. The surface of the
modern white boxes is perforated. When the doors are opened,
three different elements can be observed within these boxes:
silicone moulds of different parts of the body which are turned
inside out like remains of the body and its presence, and letters
A, C, T, G, which are used to denote DNA nucleotides. These
letters are chiselled out of abandoned tombstones. The third
element are different clay sculptures, which are placed
into square glass vases full of honey and sealed with bees’ wax. 
These forms of memory and preserved experiences address aesthetic possibilities which are nowadays not acceptable and are, in fact, almost offensive, for we have created an aesthetic which is connected to ugliness and shattered vision of the world through social engineering and abandoning of beauty in art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT7mya2J8yM
One of the boxes is more connected to science,
because it contains gels that are used for sequencing
of DNA. Visitors watch a slide show of different faces
(photographs and artistic images) at the bottom of the box
through these gels, signifying that identity can nowadays only
be defined through science and no longer
through visual media.
At the top of each box is the QR code with an encoded short
text which is also the title of the individual sculpture. So
the visitor requires help of technology, some kind of "know-how"
for deciphering
the meanings of art, much like with objects in everyday life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfTGGNYWE8g
The biggest box is by the wall opposite the entrance. It contains two statues (figures) made of bees’ wax. The statues have an obvious connection to the long history of classical sculpting, they are some kind of "Adam and Eve" of sculptural tradition, hidden behind the (post)modern demands for negation of cultural inheritance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ivNn_rDno