Small but dangers: Natura morta
Exhibition marking 21 years of artistic work
MGLC, Ljubljana
Opening: Friday, November 21, 2025, at 18.00
Curator: Božidar Zrinski
Small but dangers is a purposefully miswritten paraphrase of the expression, “Small, but dangerous”, which became the throughline, recognisable slogan and name under which the artistic duo of Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin, residental artists of the SAiR project, operate.
Since their first exhibitions in Slovenia in 2004, the well-established artist duo have been presenting various visual jabs that test the folds of our grey matter and above all, our capacity to observe, to read and to seek the unknown in the known. We can label the duo as neo-conceptualists, as well as painters, printmakers or makers of ready-mades with an ironic and analytical approach to the material fragments surrounding us. The exhibition entitled Natura morta is their largest to date and marks 21 years of their work together. It is full of small things, old and new works, presented to the public for the first time and arranged in such a way as to foster new interrelationships and meanings. With the exhibition, Small but dangers confirm that exhibiting is still only one of the media in which they are active and in which their system of signs can transform into a comprehensive metalanguage about art itself.
Among the exhibited works are also those created during the SAiR residencies in Athens, Prague, and Madrid. The series, titled Archipelago Europe, presents fragments of the habits and environments the artists encountered during their two-month residencies. What distinguishes the series is what is characteristic of their practice in general – the search for new, often humorous meanings and uses of everyday objects, materials, and things that surround us, but which we may not be able to see or sense in a different way.
Photo:
1) From the collection Archipelago Europe, Prague Island, mixed media, 9 cm x 7 cm x 5 cm, 2025. Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.
2) Felice, from the collection Archipelago Europe, Athens Island, paper, 15 cm x 8 cm x 10 cm, 2024. Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.
3) In the fog, from the collection Archipelago Europe, Prague Island, modified found object, 27 x 18 cm, 2025. Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.
