Transformella
Transformella: Cinis’ Forking [4.4.6.10.1] – Die Schützlinginnen and Neverlife in Symbolic Terrain
15 September 2023–12 November 2023
RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE, Vošnjakova ulica 4, Ljubljana
In 2021, the Grand Prize of the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts was awarded to JP Raether for Protekto.x.x 5.5.5.1 Precipitation, which was undersigned by Protektorama, one of Raether’s constructed identities. Together they constitute a hybrid formation of authorship called aLifveForms that consists of many lines of life, among them also Transformellae. They first appeared in 2010 to research reproductive technologies and possibilities for reproductive futures beyond the horizon of ReproNormality.
A mixed reality of Cinis’ Forking [4.4.6.10.1] presents Transformella’s rituals in Ikeality and narrates their latest mutation into a new version of themselves – Transformella cinis. Bringing a much-needed intervention in the narratives and myths that underpin reactionary politics and increasing forces of retraditionalisation, Transformella weave a lifeline connecting reproductive and ecological concerns to communeer a metabolism of a habitable world.
Curator: Tjaša Pogačar
Transformella is an Artificial Identity, a “SelfSister”, and an AlterIdentitarian aLifveForm. They are the first in the lifeline of the Transformellae. They forked into Transformella malor in 2015 and began to intervene in so-called Ikeality in the local stores, where home goods and family models are massreproduced. Since then, they have appeared in various Ikealities in Berlin, Warsaw, Hamburg and Düsseldorf. In 2021, they departed from their older Self as an ashborn and necrotising Sinkamme, Transformella cinis.
Anita Afonu
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Yasmina Benabderrahmane
Assadour Bezdikian
Max Cegielski and Janek Simon
Virginia Chihota
Galle Winston Kofi Dawson
Nolan Oswald Dennis
Nabil Djedouani
(DNLM) Danilo Milovanović
Jihan El Tahri
El Warcha in dialogue with PLAC – Participatory Ljubljana Autonomus Zone
Beti Frim and Ines Sekač
Helga Griffiths
Christian Guerematchi
Eric Gyamfi
Sonia Kacem
Mohammad Omar Khalil and Abed Al Kadiri (in dialogue)
Soghra Khurasani
Kolektiv Krater / Krater Collective
Kvadratni meter / Square Meter
Lalitha Lajmi
Malle Leis
Silvi Liiva
Kagiso Patrick Mautloa
Raul Meel
Amina Menia
Yussif Musah
Medhat Nasr Ali
Ilona Németh
noks collective
Nonument Group
NPR.
Henry Obeng
Temitayo Ogunbiyi
Thierry Oussou
Krishna Reddy
Tjaša Rener
Martyna Rzepecka
Duba Sambolec
Jaanus Samma
School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro)
Mori Sikora
Aldona Skirutyte
Sanaz Sohrabi
Tejswini Narayan Sonawane
Selasi Awusi Sosu
Sreda v sredo (SVS)
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson
Marje Üksine
Tõnis Vint
Ala Younis
Lara Žagar
Manca Žitnik
The Print Portfolio of Artists of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, The Holy Corner
International Centre of Graphic Arts
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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