{"id":8426,"date":"2025-09-02T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:57:57","slug":"lucija-krizman-notes-on-dispersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/news\/lucija-krizman-notes-on-dispersion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucija Krizman: NOTES ON DISPERSION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Exhibition<\/strong>
Prostor 10ka, GMK, \u0160ubi\u0107eva 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening:<\/strong> Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 7 PM
On view until:<\/strong> September 16, 2025
Gallery hours:<\/strong> Tue\u2013Fri: 4\u20137 PM \/ Sat: 10 AM\u20131 PM
Free admission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucija Krizman\u2019s solo show Notes on Dispersion<\/em> is opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the encounter of flame and fume, in the process of decay and reformation, materials begin to lose their solid forms. Glass flows, ceramics crack, and ash writes new textures. It is precisely there \u2013 where form becomes uncertain and meaning begins to slip \u2013 that the space of research begins for Lucija Krizman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes on Dispersion<\/em> unfolds as a series of experiments at the edge of material properties and their symbolic potentials. Through sculptural installations and performative gestures, Krizman pushes materials to their limits \u2013 testing them with fire, water, and the passage of time. At the core of the project is an installation imagined to float on bodies of water, constructed from steel and ceramics, shaped after archetypal structures like the labyrinth and spiderweb \u2013 symbols of movement enriched with mythological and ritual connotations that evoke ideas of self-discovery, transition, and creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video recording of a durational performance, during which the work is made, reveals an open flame transforming materials, drawing us closer to the synergy of fire and water, whose sounds provide the foundation for a visual narration. The sound follows movement, creating pulsating rhythms that suggest what we might call the primordial. The video is conceived as a meditation on the object of inquiry, a space for unknowing and reflection. Rather than directing the gaze, it guides the viewer toward a state of dispersion and inner wandering, while the performance acts as the starting point of the entire process, an experiment offering insight into the making of the installation and the meanings that gradually emerge from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process of transformation continues through what remains \u2013 the ash produced by fire becomes material for further experimentation. In this way, the work carries on beyond the performance, expanding into unpredictable directions, where every residue holds the potential for a new beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a parallel body of work, the artist uses window panes from an old family house, melting and reshaping their glass into new forms. Windows \u2013 clear and tangible boundaries between inside and outside, now become sites of lost function and released materiality; their new forms fuse distorted, distant memories. Krizman does not attempt to preserve objects; she brings them to the point of rupture, documents transitional states, and opens up space for a different kind of presence. Here we approach what \u017di\u017eek, following Lacan, calls the Real<\/em> \u2013 referring to the cracks in the symbolic order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes on Dispersion<\/em> is a work about limits \u2013 of materials, and of memory \u2013 and their ongoing reshaping. It does not offer a straightforward narrative, but rather constructs a space of uncertainty and unpredictability, where through subtle destruction and an openness to chance, both material and symbolic transformation is allowed to occur. This is a process in which sculptures and installations do not retain their previous states but instead embrace change, inviting us to reflect on the cyclical processes of creation and destruction. Lucija Krizman\u2019s intervention avoids the trap of nostalgia and does not aim at restoration; instead, it gently but resolutely embraces fracture, uncertainty, and loss as fertile ground for creation, showing us that new meanings emerge precisely in those moments when we consciously allow the known to yield to the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonela Soleni\u010dki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucija Krizman<\/strong> (born in Zadar, 1985) is a Croatian artist working primarily in sculpture and interdisciplinary installation. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2022) and a BA from Central Saint Martins (2017). Her practice explores themes of absence, material memory, and spatial perception, often drawing from personal and collective narratives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krizman has presented her work in solo and duo exhibitions across Europe, including \u201cStrangers Anew\u201d at Somers Gallery (London, 2024), and \u201cMaster of Voids\u201d at Galerija Karas (Zagreb, 2022). In October 2023, Krizman presented a solo exhibition at the National Museum in Zadar, featuring her largest installations and site-specific works to date. She has also participated in numerous group shows, such as IN-SONORA 12 in Madrid, Art Biesenthal at Wehrmuehle Museum (Berlin, 2022 and 2019), and and \u201cI Object\u201d (2021), a group exhibition of RCA students in collaboration with the Freud Museum in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Frankopan Scholarship, which is awarded to outstanding Croatian students studying in the UK. She was an artist-in-residence at the Freud Museum\u2019s online program in 2021 and is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prefacet: Antonela Soleni\u010dki<\/strong>
GMK Managers: Tea Matanovi\u0107, Antonela Soleni\u010dki<\/strong>
Production: Generator of Multidisciplinary Co-productions (GMK)<\/strong>
Visual identity design: Agnete Morell<\/strong>
GMK\u2019s program is supported by: the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Zagreb<\/strong>
GMK\u2019s work is supported by: Kultura nova Foundation, INA d.d.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucija Krizman opens her new solo exhibition Notes on Dispersion at Prostor 10ka, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevi\u0107. Running from September 9 to 16, 2025, the exhibition invites visitors to step into an intimate gallery setting and explore her reflections on dispersion\u2014on fragments, scattering, and the reassembling of meaning. Prostor 10ka, located at \u0160ubi\u0107eva 29, becomes a site of encounter where artistic thought unfolds into experience, accessible to everyone with free admission and gallery hours attuned to the unhurried rhythm of afternoons and Saturday mornings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}