ENTER HERE I Edina Muftić
Botanica: Metagenomic Mapping
20/03—
11/05/2024
Botanica: Metagenomic Mapping
20/03—
11/05/2024
LOCATION
RAVNIKAR GALLERY
Vošnjakova ulica 4
1000 Ljubljana
RAVNIKAR GALLERY
Vošnjakova ulica 4
1000 Ljubljana
CURATOR
Lara Mejač
Lara Mejač
PHOTOGRAPHER
Mario Zupanov
Mario Zupanov
STATEMENT
Visual artist Edina Muftić's practice consists of three-dimensional computer-generated videos, virtual spaces and digital graphics, exploring the relationship to virtual spaces. The exhibition Botanica: Metagenomic Mapping presents a video game in a changing Arctic environment that confronts us with the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
In the video game, the viewer assumes the role of a Terrapod, the first of the newly discovered organisms that have begun to emerge as a result of the melting of the permafrost of the Arctic. While exploring the frozen landscape, Terrapod encounters abstract organic forms and, by interacting with them, participates in the re-creation of life in the Arctic ecosystem. The environment is generated based on data from NASA's large-scale environmental change study, the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment - ABoVE, in which scientists highlight the fact that climate change is happening faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth.
In an immersive environment, the artist combines vivid scenes of Arctic flora with disturbing footage from real-life ecological studies on the vulnerability of ecosystems, considering whether this kind of interactive experience can influence our awareness of the severity of the climate crisis. The meditative game thus does not offer a solution or an end goal, but rather a subtle commentary on the inconceivable, but essential interconnectedness of human impact on both nearby and seemingly distant unspoilt parts of the planet.
Edina Muftić’s (1996) primary version of work Biophilia won the 2019 Student Prize at the 25th International Festival of Computer Art (MFRU) in Maribor. A year later, she received the student prize at the 26th MFRU for her work Botanica. In 2022, she exhibited her works in a solo show at gallery DobraVaga. The second iteration of Biophilia was presented in a solo exhibition at the gallery Portal 2-7-7-7-7-8, which was also on view as part of the BITE OF ART festival.
Sound: Ecology141
Vizualna umetnica Edina Muftić v svoji praksi ustvarja tridimenzionalne računalniško generirane videoposnetke, virtualne prostore in digitalne grafike, pri čemer raziskuje odnos do virtualnih prostorov. Razstava Botanica: Metagenomic Mapping predstavlja video igro v spreminjajočem se arktičnem okolju, ki nas sooča s katastrofalnimi posledicami podnebnih sprememb.
V videoigri gledalec prevzame vlogo Terrapoda, prvega od novoodkritih organizmov, ki so se začeli pojavljati zaradi topljenja permafrosta. Med raziskovanjem zaledenele pokrajine Terrapod naleti na abstraktne organske forme, ob interakciji z njimi pa sodeluje pri ponovnem ustvarjanju življenja v ekosistemu na območju Arktike. Okolje se generira na podlagi podatkov iz Nasine obsežne študije okoljskih sprememb Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment - ABoVE, v kateri znanstevniki opozarjajo na dejstvo, da se podnebne spremembe na Arktiki odvijajo hitreje kot kjer koli drugje na Zemlji.
Umetnica v potopitvenem okolju združuje slikovite prizore arktične flore ter zaskrbljujoče posnetke iz resničnih ekoloških študij o ranljivosti ekosistemov, pri čemer razmišlja, ali lahko tovrstna interaktivna izkušnja vpliva na naše zavedanje o resnosti posledic podnebne krize. Meditativna igra tako ne ponuja rešitve ali končnega cilja, temveč predstavlja subtilen komentar o težko predstavljivi, a bistveni medsebojni povezanosti človekovega vpliva tako na bližnje kot tudi na navidezno oddaljene neokrnjene dele planeta.
Edina Muftić (1996) je za primarno različico dela Biofilija je leta 2019 prejela študentsko nagrado na 25. mednarodnem festivalu računalniške umetnosti (MFRU) v Mariboru. Za delo Botanika je leto kasneje prejela študentsko nagrado na 26. MFRU-ju. Leta 2022 je razstavljala na samostojni razstavi v DobriVagi. Drugo iteracijo dela Biofilija je predstavila na samostojni razstavi v galeriji Portal 2-7-7-7-8, ki je bila na ogled tudi v okviru festivala BITE OF ART.
Zvok: Ecology141
