So Close so Far

So Close, So Far is a collaborative project by four contemporary visual artists who live and create in the town of Kamnik, but who exhibit both in Slovenia and abroad, participating in solo and group exhibitions. The works, created in response to the reflections of the exhibition curator, Saša Bučan, will be presented by printmaker Oliver Pilić, painter and restorer Matevž Sterle, printmaker and sculptor Nina Koželj, and artist, writer, and curator Louise Winter, the latter two presenting spatial installations.

Through their work, the artists delve into the era in which they live and create—a time in which art is all too often pushed to the margins and spoken of as a parasite that produces no profit. A time when everything, down to the last detail, is measured in money—money that turns, twists, and often flips entire worlds.

The exhibition also raises questions and addresses the issue of alienation from nature, our inability to find harmony between ourselves and the natural world. As a result, there is also the growing alienation of the individual from themselves, and an increasing awareness of how far this alienation has taken us, especially in recent decades.

The artists question, search for, and explore what defines their inner existence—what drives them toward creation, toward creativity, and toward the ability to truly see the world around them. They confront the tension between urban decay and natural forms, and the cyclical process of growth and decay—a source of inspiration that comes, paradoxically, from the very opposite: from the dynamic and chaotic nature of creation as a path from a state of nirvana toward a journey into their own inner worlds.