The performance and the spatial installation refer to the display of an old traditional craft of painting, which is quickly sinking into oblivion, while at the same time being transformed into a new image with the help of modern design techniques.
‘Am se vzeti” derives from the German term ‘annehmen’ and means ‘to pay attention to something; to pay attention to something ‘. Due to extinction, forgetting cultural heritage, especially old crafts, we can say that the process means a leaching of heritage. The author wants to encourage people to pay attention to their heritage. The performance (which takes place as part of the sound walk Mapping Memories) and the spatial installation refer to the old traditional craft that is quickly sinking into oblivion, while transforming into a new image with the help of modern design techniques. The location of the installation is not accidental, it looks towards Pirc’s dyeing factory, whose craft the author interprets in her work.
Estera Rezar is a graduate designer and a master’s student at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, majoring in Clothing and Textile Design. She upgraded her knowledge at Leeds Arts University, UK, Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Design and in Lugano, Switzerland. She exhibited her samples at the Premiere Vision in Paris and Hemtextil in Frankfurt.
With the help of: Odeja Škofja Loka
Photography: Maša Pirc / BIEN 2021
