Pleroma


Sun Times Review: Today will be bright—almost too bright for living cells. Retinal damage can occur faster than an observer can move their eye from the eyepiece. Solar filters may crack from overheating. Daydreaming through corporate window frames structured in honeycomb formations. The honeycomb composite is more than aesthetics—it’s a containment grid, a mapping of presence over absence. Abandoned offices hold thermal echoes, every floor is a loop of failed occupation. They call the skyscraper Black Widow for a reason: one worker lost his life during the construction work. But the structure absorb this too, the cost is relational to another material layered between steel and solar reflections. Building was intended as office space for the Delo (Work) newspaper. The place folds unevenly now. Original blueprints in space are overwritten by patchwork tenants, ghosted data, and partial renovations that are not resolved.

Sunlight isn’t soft here—it arrives sharpened like a blade, slicing through panes of reinforced glass, etching temporary ruins onto retinas. What appears solid—wall, floor, hardware—is only a delay of next virtualization. The photon does not knock; it enters. Objects are situated on the 7th floor in a squared circular floor plan. They are from the same core, cut with water, shaped like the technical drawings of round heatsink components for computers. They resemble quantum mechanics, navigators, cellular containers, molecular swatches, energy transmitters, sungazers—all stretching through the viewer-space, glowing with the vibrant luminosity of sunlight incorporated into the state of the building. Navigation is possible only by memory or pattern recognition. Nothing is labeled, nothing stays in place. In the sun, through the object, through object to the core. Filmed from the inside-outside, vibrant solar light pierces through in motion and visibility, crossing through space and revealing forms. The view flows from sunrise to sunset and back again … The building scans in all directions. Each cell is both a shrine and a server.

Pleroma, location-specific formations, 2025–ongoing.
Four core blocks made from honeycomb composites and epoxy resin, each in size Ø 200 x 250 mm, water cut film format 16:9 (Blackmagic RAW, DJI), film length 00:28:54, soundtrack by Roger Tellier-Craig, camera 1 by Original Copy (Tomaž Šantl), camera 2 by Legitfilms (Mitja Legat), comp artistry by Voranc Kumar, directed and produced by Živa Božičnik Rebec, video montage by Živa Božičnik Rebec.

Živa Božičnik Rebec

develops a speculative, object-oriented practice grounded in an investigative engagement with technologies and materials. She approaches these as substantial chimeras—hybrid entities shaped by infrastructural systems and the dynamics of planetary ecologies. Her work has been exhibited in Slovenia and internationally. Her project Pleroma, which draws inspiration from Pleromatica, a book by Gabriel Catren, generates images in relation to the physical presence of the Delo building, the endlessly shifting conditions of sunlight, and an attempt to liaison a space for astronauts and other strange attractors within unfolding speculative events.

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