Unfamiliar Area | Domen Dimovski: The Road to Justice

27 June 2021 > 27 July 2021

 



The frozen clip from the animation The Road to Justice represents a demonic figure of the king, inspired by Lorenzetti's fresco Allegory of Bad Government, which personifies the situation of the horribly unknown. The feverish fusion and relocation of the artistic is condensed into the visual metaphor of politico-global melting of nature, politics, and experience itself, in which the sublimity of hellish metamorphosis is being revealed.

The times we live in are full of social frictions, excessive disagreements between governments, and intolerance among people. There are many organizations, groups, and individuals who strive on a daily basis to improve, educate, and change the almost painful circumstances of existence. Still, it may not be that easy to change or transform them. The author Domen Dimovski stages the hellish side of transformation, the sublimity of metamorphosis (Michael Taussig), the definition of which is the feeling of the positive with the negative, horror in change, devilish power, and mighty nature that can destroy us at any time. Perhaps changes are not without pain, passage through hell, and imminent destruction of the nature and individual.

Nina Baznik

 

Domen Dimovski (1995, Kranj) graduated from the Department of Painting in the field of video and new media in 2017, with a thesis titled Authoritarianism of Media Society. In 2019, he obtained his master's degree also in painting under the mentorship of dr. Lev Kreft with the theoretical work The Passage from the Cave: On Plato's Trail and the short animated film The Sandpass. He is active mainly in the fields of intermedia and video art, animation, painting, graphics, and design. He has received seven home awards and one international award for his works. He has had 8 solo exhibitions and participated in 41 group exhibitions and at numerous international festivals. He is a member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU) and Art Society Kranj since 2018. Since 2019, he has been self-employed in culture. Since 2020, he is a member of the artistic council of the Art Society Kranj and a curator for the section Video and new media.

https://domendimovski.weebly.com/

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Curator: Nina Baznik
Proof-reading (Slovene language): Neja Berlič
Translation (to English language): Ana Makuc
Financial support: Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City Council Ljubljana - Department for Culture