04 – Nika Erjavec »Transmitted«

In the audiovisual ambient “Transmitted”, the artist explores the relationship between sensual reality and human perception. By playing with the physical properties of light, sound, and vibration, the artist reveals how the human nervous system functions and its limits of perception. Our reality is fabricated and distorted by the brain based on its processing power and ability to keep up with sensory information. The installation is combined with one of her projects, for which dry plants, which escape our gaze through a hidden spectrum of colours, were gathered; degraded and abandoned spaces taken over by resilient, wild ecosystems that thrive on being overlooked by humans. When vibrating matter and light interact, segments of elusive reality are revealed.

Nika Erjavec is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the ways sensory dynamics shape and challenge modes of perception. She studied at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and received the OHO Group Award for Best Young Visual Artist in Slovenia in 2025. The interactive light installation “Cellular Landscapes” at the University Medical Center Ljubljana (2024) and the interactive sound installation at the Slovenian Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana (2022) can be visited as permanent installations by the artist. Since 2014, she has actively exhibited in local and international contexts. Her most recent solo exhibition, “(un)objectivity”, was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana in 2024.

Sound composition: Christian Kroupa (SL), composer