Xenospaces

Humans navi­ga­te the­ir sur­ro­un­din­gs thro­ugh sen­sory per­cep­ti­on and cul­tu­ral­ly cons­truc­ted logics, sha­ping how we cla­im, inter­pret, and tran­sform spa­ce. Yet this per­s­pec­ti­ve, tho­ugh cen­tral to our under­stan­ding, is not abso­lu­te. HEKA Lab inves­ti­ga­tes the limi­ta­ti­ons of this human-cen­tric domi­nan­tly visu­al fra­mework, explo­ring how spa­ces, the mate­ri­als wit­hin them and the soun­d­s­ca­pes are expe­ri­en­ced and influ­en­ced by both human and non-human inte­rac­ti­ons. By chal­len­ging the sta­tic noti­on of spa­ce as a human-visu­al-domi­na­ted cons­truct, each pro­ject unco­vers its dyna­mic and rela­ti­onal natu­re. These “xenos­pa­ces” reve­al the layers of coexis­ten­ce, whe­re diver­se for­ms of life and alter­na­ti­ve ways of per­ce­iving the wor­ld cre­ate unexpec­ted rela­ti­on­ships. Rather than fixed or uni­ver­sal­ly under­sto­od, spa­ce beco­mes an acti­ve par­ti­ci­pant in sha­ping reali­ti­es, enco­ura­ging new per­s­pec­ti­ves that tran­s­cend human logic and sen­sory bias. Through ins­tal­la­ti­ons that tran­s­la­te the­se over­lo­oked dimen­si­ons into tan­gi­ble expe­ri­en­ces, HEKA Lab invi­tes visi­tors to recon­si­der the­ir pla­ce wit­hin the sha­red, inter­con­nec­ted fabric of exis­ten­ce, whe­re per­cep­ti­on and reality are far more flu­id than they mig­ht appear.

Borut Jerman i Marijeta Bradić

a: Deni Bordon, Gjorgji Despodov, Mauricio Valdes San Emeterio, Marko Vivoda