Consumer spaces have experienced various forms and associated ways of shopping in the history of capitalism. The connection of the specific properties of physical space with the economic and experiential model of consumerism directly affects the reception of the product on the 'market'.
Spatial installations rely on the experiential states of actual consumption spaces and their specific properties. They materialize the properties of the considered spatial categories; trade fairs, shopping malls and online shopping: kinetic variability of trade fairs, which annually transform the market reality with the help of fleeting events; the fragility of the ruins of a traditional shopping center, which is losing attendance every year, and their megalomaniacal buildings are becoming physical monuments to the consumer society of the 20th century; and the unpredictability and intangibility of the online market, where hierarchical market relations are transformed and which at the same time acts as a symbol of the time in which we live and the precariousness of the current situation of global society.
Hana Tavčar is a master’s student at NTF, majoring in Textile and Clothing Design. She completed her first-cycle studies at ALUO, majoring in Painting. She also studied at the HSLU in Lucerne, Switzerland (Illustration). She focuses her studies and research mainly on textile design, but also creates in the field of drawing and graphics.
With the help of : Odeja Škofja Loka
Photography: Maša Pirc / BIEN 2021
