Duality of the Beautiful

_{With the series Duality of the Beautiful, from which the works in the exhibition are taken, she confronts us in an unexpected way with the theme of encounters between nature and civilised surroundings. There is a semantic gap between the title of the works and what we see. We no longer know how to interpret the confrontation between an idyllic fragment of a conifer canopy, which is intended to evoke in the viewer a pleasant feeling of natural shelter, and an object, such as a plastic bag or a car tyre, which is a foreign body in nature, but which, discarded by man, has been there for so long that its aesthetic manifestation constitutes a part of its environment. Using the optical play of the compound image in the third dimension, with which one can behold the image such that the waste disappears, the viewers are not confronted with a direct sharpness that would arouse in them a feeling of guilt about the destruction of the environment that they would then suppress into oblivion as soon as they leave the gallery. Instead, the artist uses the soft power of the aesthetic object, whose image becomes imprinted in memory in a way that is impossible to forget.
Nadja Zgonik}