Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Velkoobchod Štěpán2001: Studio K.F.A.
Dita Stepanova
Dita Stepanova’s work is a diary with hidden stories behind. Reflections on a vision of the future that draw hazy lines between fiction and reality. Each piece creates an open space for another possible story. However, the overall concept and chosen topics reflect the present day: fashion, icons, emblems, magazines, obsessions, and missed communications.
Human relations, loneliness, oddities, dreams…like a distant echo from ancient mural paintings. Each creates hazy lines between fiction and reality. Always creating an open space for another possible story and dealing with the ‘moment.’ The moment is an extension of time; reality stretches from the past to the present in a never-ending emotion. It is something that nobody can describe with words; the moment without beginning and without end.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Coal on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Tomaz Furlan
Much of Tomaz Furlan’s work is part of a continuous series called WEAR. The fourteen iterations of WEAR each include a video as well as a sculpture, machine, or installation. In WEAR, the sculptures are props often in the form of clothes; the title WEAR is derived from this. While the title suggests that these pieces are just clothes, they are also a functional object made for ritual action. The WEAR project is an attempt to reconcile both banality and stupidity.
Tomaz Furlan studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art, Ljubljana. His work consists of video performances, sculptures and video installations. The video performances highlight the use of dresses or body accessories made for a certain purpose. He has been part of many exhibtions in Slovenia and internationally including Manifesta 9, Genk; In the Loop: Contemporary Contemporary Video Art from the European Union, Washington; Limited Access II, Parkingallery, and Eyedentify Yourself, SCCA Ljubljana. Furlan lives and works in Ljubljana.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tomaz Furlan and Olson Lamaj
October 9, 2012
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR I, 2006, Video, 3:22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR V, 2008, Video, 3 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR VIII, 2010, Video, 4:39 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR IV, 2008, Stone, steel, and polyurethane foam. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR I, 2005, Steel, polyurethane foam, and rope.
Residents from Slovenia
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Olson Lamaj
Olson Lamaj works in several media including photography, video, painting and installation, though his work is typically serial photography executed over a long period of time. In addition, he makes site-specific work when inspired by a physical place. His training in the Italian academy has deeply impacted his practice, not only in his treatment of photography as an art medium, but also in his ability to notice and capture the absurdities, ironies, and contradictions that are a result of the unregulated and fast-paced change that characterizes contemporary urban Albania. As an artist who lives between two different worlds, Lamaj is sensitive to these transformations and shares the peculiar visions that this position affords him.
Born and raised in Albania, Olson Lamaj studied visual art in Milan where he has worked and lived for several years. He has participated in various exhibitions throughout Europe and in his native Albania.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tomaz Furlan and Olson Lamaj
October 9, 2012
Olson Lamaj, Torso 1, 2006, Digital photo, 391/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Shqipe, 2006, Digital photo, 391/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Photo Eater, 2011, Stop-motion video. Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Photo Eater. Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Albania From the Street, 2012, Photo book, 1113/16 × 85/16 in. (29.97 × 21.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
