(Everything Is) Not What It Seems

“(Everything Is) Not What It Seems” reflects upon the ability to look beyond the immediately visible and beyond the given reality of things. Artworks in this exhibition have been selected because of their ability to fascinate and deceive, and to shed light on a multitude of historical, technological, and socio-political issues. A shared trait among the participating artists is how they use the potential in visual art to add layers of meaning to different topics, inviting us as viewers to further reflection. The works in the exhibition can also be perceived as tools for the emancipation from visual strategies and political ideologies utilized to trade with our culture and art. As a whole, the exhibition points out that artistic imagination can be considered a site of resistance, as a means that contains the potential to challenge our beliefs and awaken the sense that it is possible to imagine other forms of reality. The exhibition is curated by Mara Ambrožič Verderber, director of Piran Coastal Galleries, and presents works by 21 artists active in the national and international art context.