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Published on November 18th, 2025On Friday 21. 11. 2025 at 7 PM, you are kindly invited to the performance and opening of the exhibition Shooting the cloud by authors Neža Knez and Vida Guzmić in cooperation with meteorologist Vladimir Đurđević in Cirkulacija2.
On Thursday 27. 11. 2025 at 6 PM, Neža Knez is going to lead a guided tour of the exhibition in Cirkulacija2.
For the last year and a half, the authors have been exploring the weather and clouds and translating them into audiovisual and spatial poetics. They build soft bridges between empirical materials and the appropriation of scientific methods, which in their practice transform into subjective processes linking the perceptions of temperature, environment, the past and beliefs. With plurality of the view they delete the boundary between meteorological phenomena and instruments that measure them, between institutional contexts of reality and virtual control options.
Their practice is reflected in the mutation of media communication forms. They compose materials from ethnographic research, virtual and physical archives, mobile weather applications and meteorological institutions in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade.
With research materials they enter the associative dialogue with authored digital and analogue recordings 8 mm and 16 mm film, sound compositions, objects, and with “live” materials: water, ice, steam. Through reformulations of images, texts, and sounds, they create an experiential environment that evokes the feeling that feet are no longer standing on the ground but on water in the air. Water that flows, evaporates, cools and warms up in cycles of constantly changing atmosphere that remains out of control — regardless of attempts to predict and regulate.
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In her work, Neža Knez (1990) explores the potentials and possibilities within a fictional structure that occurs in real time and space. She is interested in the relationships that take place in the design process, whether it is motion picture, sound, language or mixed media installation. She actively cooperates with artists from Slovenia, Croatia and the wider region in the framework of artistic research, exhibitions, expanded cinema, performances and film productions, and regularly works in the collectives Studio Pangolin and Klub Vizija.
Vida Guzmić works with moving and static images, text and sound, and forms narratives inspired by everyday, ritual and sexually marked, questioning the boundaries of intimacy within constructed individual and collective identities. In 2012 she obtained a master’s degree in new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and in addition she studied at HWP in Beirut, WHW Academy, Women’s Studies in Zagreb and residencies in Rotterdam, Vienna and Paris.
