Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec: Reading Reading

The exhibition Reading Reading is a comprehensive presentation of the artistic research project , which Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec undertook in 2017. The project engages with reading as a bodily activity, and as the relation between spoken word as an event in time, and written word as an object in space. The project is a manifestation of the various ways of capturing, embodying, and unsettling the temporal relations that unfold between the written text, eye movement, the inner voice and phonic substance while reading by altering the ocular desire, slowing down, reversing or stopping time between sensing and making sense.

It is conceived as a multimedia spatial installation that activates the relations between the six selected works. From the larger series Reading Reading, works created between 2019 and 2023, the following are on display: Reading Vito Acconci (2019), Reading (as) Bodies (2020) and Reading Reading (2020), which are placed alongside the newly created works – The Landscape of the Passerby (2022–2023), Touching Reading (2023) and Morphology of a Pre-view (2019–2022), which are presented for the first time.

Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana/Cukrarna Gallery
Represented by: Blaž Peršin
Cukrarna Gallery represented by: Alenka Gregorič
Editor and exhibition curator: Mara Anjoli Vujić
Text: Nina Dragičević
Conversation with the artist: Mara Anjoli Vujić
English translation: Urban Belina, Sunčan Stone
Slovenian language editing: Katja Paladin
English language editing: Ana Čavić, Sunčan Stone
Photos: Blaž Gutman/MGML
Scanning: Matej Satler
Design and layout: Ajdin Bašić
Printed by: Cicero d.o.o., Ljubljana
Print run: 300
Number of pages: 120
June 2023