GALLERY MC | NEW YORK

December 1 - December 15, 2006
Continues on view in the Project Gallery until January 7, 2007

Opening Reception
Friday, December 1, 2006 from 6-9 pm

Two artists from Slovenia, Zora Stančič (printmaker) and Elena Fajt (mixed media), work with already used and/or wasted motives, materials, and contents to give them new meanings. Through their installaions, prints and objects visitors will face and question their own values, norms and prejudices. The title of the show is actually a metaphor of contemporary society and its "best before" date concept. In this way, contemporary art also has more and more of its own "best before" date. What happens when it expires? Then, how can the wasted be experienced?

ELENA FAJT & ZORA STANČIČ

BEST BEFORE / EXPERIENCE OF THE WASTED

Zora Stančič, is a visual artist whose medium is print and printmaking in which she combines her intimate stories and comments on contemporary life and art. Her works are among the permanent collections in the Albertina, Vienna, the Fond National D’Art Contemporain in Paris, the Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana and the JaneVoorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. She has published two books of her works: Album (1995) and Review (2000).

Elena Fajt, visual artist, works on the Hairsense project in which she explores human hair in artistic, symbolic, and cultural sense. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, France, Denmark, Germany and USA. She had a residency at Rosemont College in Philadelphia in 2004-2005 and at The Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia in summer 2005, which was concluded with solo show.

Thanks to:Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Department of Culture at City of Ljubljana, Consualte Genaral of Slovenia, L.I.P.A., Pristop