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Join us for the opening of the exhibition "Your Package Is on Its Way" by Klara Kracina, on Friday, 22 May 2026 at Alkatraz Gallery at 6 p.m. The event
is a part of Ljubljana Art Weekend Festival.
Klara Kracina's solo exhibition entitled Your Package Is on Its Way is a part of the long-term programme of the Alkatraz Gallery, 'Empowerment of Young Artists', in the framework of which we collaborate with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana and alternately organise biennial group and solo exhibition of selected artists. As part of the exhibition of students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, titled By the Way Important, in Ljubljana and Maribor, in 2025 and 2026, respectively, Klara Kracina presented the series People You May Know (2024), a distinctive blend of homage and photographic archive, drawing on images from the Facebook page of the Africa Trebnje nightclub. Through these works, she holds up a mirror to the social environment in which the photographs were originally taken. In the works of art, we see questionable aesthetic choices, modes of self-presentation, methods of relaxation and leisure, as well as honest moments of unbridled passion.
The archival element of observation through an anthropological lens is reminiscent of the artist's initiative of collecting found notes from strangers (presented in the Zin Notes collection at DobraVaga Gallery) and other attempts to document phenomena of social life that may seem trivial and insignificant, but which the artist treats in a way that, through her characteristic humour, encourages the viewer to reflect on broader themes of collective memory.
She continues with this approach to documentation in the exhibition entitled Your Package Is on Its Way, in which she focuses on collecting and visually reinterpreting online posts that she identifies as meaningful social fragments. The very title of the exhibition evokes feelings of excitement and anticipation, like automatic reactions to the announced arrival of goods ordered from the internet. Through her artworks and spatial installation, the artist shows just how dependent we are on online shopping. With this exhibition, she highlights our attitude to shopping platforms, such as AliExpress, Temu and Facebook Marketplace, known for selling inexpensive products and used items. Our deeply invested interest in shopping, platforms and products is also reflected in the reviews of items that consumers have posted on these sales platforms through descriptions and photographs.
This is precisely what interests the artist, as such posts often reveal visual reflections of consumers' interests, their values and personality traits. Amid the prevailing data overload, the artist, through her curatorial process, filters and selects certain moments, which she then immortalises through her artistic expression and places on a pedestal in her own cabinet of wonders for public viewing. By means of visual reinterpretation of screen shots, photographs of unknown consumers and their descriptions of affordable products, along with numerous personal stories, she offers us glimpses into fragments of (un)consciously publicly shared intimacy and often bizarre as well as humorous aspects of everyday consumerism.
Such moments, reframed as artistic expression — whether consumer posts or reviews of online purchases — foreground intimate revelations of bodies and personal stories that may initially appear trivial or amusing. Yet precisely through their candour, they expose unexpected facets of personality and vulnerability that we would not ordinarily anticipate encountering in such contexts. Despite the immaterial nature of the medium and its further incorporation into works of art, the artistic experience embodies a more tangible, bodily and physical dimension of life. All of this is enabled by the online space, which presents itself as anonymous — and therefore safe for uninhibited expression as well as detached observation — although, in reality, it is anything but.
