Code L - Fragments is a video installation created by two synchronized projections onto transparent screens. They integrate shadows and silhouettes of visitors and reflections of the architectural elements into the body of the installation. What emerges is a space-inside-of-space into which the visitors enter. According to the curator Peter Tomaz Dobrila, “The artist used to place humans at the center of the natural environment in her earlier works, reappropriating the image of the human body by emphasizing certain parts, such as eyes. In her recent works, however, the human figure blends with the environment; it becomes a body - shadow, moving across the given ambience. The internalization of this relationship unravels the corporeality, unlocks the interior, and highlights the intimacy of the experience. The figures are abstracted into ephemeral creatures, who transcend into eternity of existence and offer the viewer a space for reflection.”
The artist is presenting a selection from a new series of videos, which she originally recorded for Milko Lazar's new opera Code L. Inspired by Roland Barthes' Fragments of Lover’s Discourse, it is fueled by myths, archetypes, philosophical works, and the intimate. (Source: Nataša Prosenc Stearns)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2020
Video meditation created in isolation of a pandemic. For years, the artist has been recording and archiving video and audio material with ideas that she later articulated and edited into videos, films, and installations. The video is designed for vertical...
Production: SNG Opera in Balet Ljubljana in Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2019
The original contemporary opera code L was composed by Slovenian composer Milko Lazar and was first performed at SNG Opera & Ballet Ljubljana in March 2019. The opera is composed by several arias and choruses and inspired by Roland Barthes'&...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2019
Dreamscape #1 – Lovers is a moving collage, which integrates human body with the organic world. The process of layering connects visual elements and leads to fragments of narration. Inspired by Fragments of Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes,...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2018
A long forgotten encounter comes to life through fragments of real and imagined recollections. A chronicle of an affair, set in a deserted interiors of Los Angeles hotel (Nataša Prosenc Stearns).
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Trees of Savannah, water, stream, wind. Series of five video objects entitled Parallax: Sky is Earth, Phantom Drift, Streaming Shields, Black Palms.
Production: 2017
Series of three single-channel videos - Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts, Nucleus Brass. The work of the video artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns is never directly illustrative, but her new series Nightmares of the New Wo...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Documentation of the installation Caryatids from the exhibition by Nataša Prosenc Stearns with the title Caryatids and Medusas at the UGM Studio Gallery in Maribor in 2017. The exhibition layout was a combination of video projections, prints and videos o...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Documentation of the installation Medusas from the exhibition by Nataša Prosenc Stearns with the title Caryatids and Medusas at the UGM Studio Gallery in Maribor in 2017. The exhibition layout was a combination of video projections, prints and vide...
Production: 2017
The silhouette of the male figure in the rhythm of a steady stream is mapped to the changing snapshots of the city. Fragments of an urban landscape with buildings, traffic and streets without people run in a quick rhythm of montage, and over them, a layer...