As part of the SONICA festival, an exhibition by Slovenian artist Vesna Petresin titled Synaescapes is on display on the ground floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM).
SONICA has always been dedicated to presenting fresh and previously unknown artists in the fields of sound art, music, and audiovisual practices. This time, the festival is showcasing the first solo exhibition in Slovenia by Slovenian artist Vesna Petresin, who has been working and creating abroad for many years. The Synaescapes exhibition will feature and present five of her abstract audiovisual works, where sound directly co-creates three-dimensional landscapes in a synesthetic manner.
Vesna Petresin (SI)
Dr. Vesna Petresin, BSc PhD FRSA, is a time-architect, movement researcher, thinker and transdisciplinary artist. According to curator Fatos Ustek, she evokes “personal and collective epiphanies of body, presence, intuition and emotions”. She was an Artist in residence and lecturer at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and at the UCL, a Visiting Fellow at London’s Goldsmiths and an artist-in-residence at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. She has earned her PhD for research on temporal composition in architecture, art and music. In her practice, she explores the relationship between the (social) body and technology. Through the study of optics, complex geometry and acoustics, she experiments with the architectural dimension of our cognition and understanding of space and time. She composes and performs immersive operas that explore intangible structures: her voice, the contemplation of light, image, movement and the barriers between intimate and public spheres. This format enables her to extend analogue media into immersive experiences of contemporary rituals. She is critically addressing environmental issues, climate change, clean water and free energy, providing reflections on technological and progressive utopias. She has exhibited and staged performances, immersive experiences, multimedia installations and artefacts at many international festivals and venues (Tate Modern, ArtBasel Miami, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Academy of Arts, Venice Biennale, Cannes International Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art London, CERN, Sydney Opera House, Vienna Secession, Deutsches Museum, World Architecture Festival and Beijing Architecture Biennale). She has received industry and arts grants as well as patents in engineering and is recipient of the Knight Foundation Award for the Arts. She has also been as industry advisor, lecturer and public speaker, has published internationally (Thames & Hudson, Springer, John Wiley & Academy) and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
SONICA 2025: -STREAM
15─18 April 2025
www.sonica.si
Festival ticket:
https://olaii.com/event/6639/festival-sonica-2025
Co-produced by MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art, SONICA Festival Institute and Moderna galerija.
Supported by the Ministry of culture RS and the Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture.
Tonota is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
