Silk NTF

Ema Cestnik (SI) NTF

Random sky (2019)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko, doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Silk; digital print

Ema Cestnik maximised the accidental arrangement of colourful tufts of silk wadding with digital print, creating a light, Rococo-like atmosphere.

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Julija Muhič (SI) NTF

Black cocoons (2019)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko, doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Silk; digital print

Julija Muhič assembled picturesque scenes from original drawings of hand-woven cocoons into a comic strip that evokes the facade of a building.

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Valentina Sinkovič (SI) NTF

Red knit (2019)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko, doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Silk; digital print

Valentina Sinkovič addresses the viewer with a surreal combination of animate and inanimate matter, using spatial figuration of hands in contrast to the flatness of the textile pattern.

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Akir Latić (SI) NTF

Silk road (2025)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko and doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Silk; digital print

Akir Latić enveloped the historical backdrop and the muted motifs of the Silk road in a vibrant haze made of an enlarged graphic raster.

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Urban Dereani (SI) NTF

Feng Po and plum blossoms (2025)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko and doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Silk; digital print

Urban Dereani, fascinated by the phenomenon of the goddess Feng Po, who carries the winds in a sack, complemented the deconstructed portrait with botanical ornaments.

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A triptych of assemblages by student Julija Potočnik, combining delicate silk and mohair structures with Polaroid photographs, has been innovatively developed as an example of modular textile formation. Her work is dispersed throughout the exhibition space.

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Julija Muhič (SI) NTF

Escape (2024)

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko and doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistant: Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

wire, rubber, wood; knitting

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Ikat as a painting (2025) NTF

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko and doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Mentor: doc. dr. Mateja Kert

Technical assistants: Veronika Vidmar, Marjeta Čuk, Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

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Alja Rojko's spatial installation Parasite raises numerous questions about human existence in a world that we ourselves destroy in the name of capital.

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Taša Blatnik explores the fragility and lightness of miniature textile structures that, in dialogue with light, create a sensation of floating.

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Tina Mohorčič, through unusual biomorphic forms, highlights an intriguing property of naturally flexible materials: when hardened, their shape is permanently redefined.

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Digital prints:

Art directors and co-authors: prof. Marija Jenko and doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev

Technical assistants: Mojca Košir and Nina Glavič

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles, Graphics, and Design, Chair of Textile and Clothing Design

Ema Cestnik: Random sky, 2025

Urban Dereani: Feng Po and Plum Blossoms, 2025

Akir Latić: Silk road, 2025

Julija Muhič: Black Cocoons, 2025

Valentina Sinkovič: Red knit, 2025

The students imagined digital prints of silk fabrics on the largest possible scale and in color, in the form of a textile pattern or a monumental painting.