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Space NRGZer #4
(Soft Benches)

Intervention on urban furniture / String installation
Biella, Italy
2010

Space NRGZer #4 (Soft Benches) are conceived after an encounter with awkwardly placed benches on a street in Biella, Italy. The city of Biella is located in a region that once served as the centre for the Italian textile industry. Originally the benches were placed along the sidewalks facing the facades of shop windows. Most of the businesses were closed, with "for rent" signs placed on the shop front exteriors. My intervention took the form of a string installation, which extended the shape of the benches and connected them with strands of yellow yarn produced in a nearby factory. The resulting soft benches were like vivacious yellow rays of light and yet not usable urban furniture. The use of the locally produced wool thread memorialises the social aspect of the economic decline of the textile industry in the region, as it is no longer something upon which the local population is able to rely or "lean on".

“Beim Gendern entsteht Urin” (de)

(en: “Gendering produces urine”)

“Beim Gendern entsteht Gin” (de)

(en: “Gendering produces gin”)

(“CDoupbles”)

Visual poems

2025

Intervention in Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria on the occasion of international women's day, 8th of March 2025

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The CHAlleNGED GAMES blog was conceived with the hope to stimulate divergence thinking and challenge the viewer to rethink one's routines and shift his/her perspective on the status quo.

The blog was initially dedicated to the CHAlleNGED GAMES series and seeks for extended meaning in playing and its relation to aspects of human existence and production.

As with the time I started to experiment with another system - the language, to apply mathematical logic and seek patterns in words, in the last years my publications are mostly about this part of my work.

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st.art

Author: Veronika Tzekova
Publish Date: September 27, 2010
Dimensions: 18 x 18 cm, 70 pages
Language: English/Italian

As a manner of artistic creation in many of my recent works I employ existing urban situations, objects, visuals, texts and just add often a small detail, which significantly changes their meaning and/or function.

St.art book includes art works in the period 2004-2010, some still in progress at the time and some as ideas developed during 2010. The selection is made to guide the viewer through an artistic process that lead to the birth of ideas such as Space NRGZers and Dadissuasori.

The book ends with a couple of blank pages, which are to e filled in with sketches and ideas for new works employing the same approach.