Private Print to host exhibition, promotion of book by artist Nevena Aleksovski
Skopje, 12 October 2022 (MIA) – Private Print is set to host in its Skopje-based gallery an exhibition by artist Nevena Aleksovski, entitled ‘We Carry Soil in Our Pockets’, and promote the artist’s latest book Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands.
The exhibition is part of the tenth jubilee edition of the Firstborn Girl festival organized by Tiiiit! Inc., and the book is published and edited by Private Print.
Nevena Aleksovski is very active on the Slovenian independent cultural scene, having exhibited in numerous galleries independently and as part of group shows. Her work is based on the research and explorations of family migration, attitudes towards the land, and belonging. Arising from her own and her family’s migratory experience, she brings forward the complexities and coexistence of history, gender, and personal geographies, adding diverse socio-political layers.
Both the exhibition and book are communication with her ancestors. In the exhibition, with the use of materials such as earth, stones, pieces of concrete, old clothes and other textiles, she explores the relationship with the earth, territory, space, limitation, appropriation, and exclusion. Through the artistic, visual articulation of her personal migrant experience and her relationship with her ancestors and family background, she tries to address what is universal in these experiences, especially in the sense of intimate, emotional, and irrational experiencing of the mentioned states and circumstances, the organizers say.
After the opening on Thursday, the exhibition will be on view until November 12, Wednesday through Saturday, 12 pm-18 pm. The exhibition is curated by Jana Stardelova.
