Intruders, Uninvited into Chaos is a two-part exhibition that stages the tension embedded in the architectural, typological, and socio-political confrontation between a vast former salt warehouse on the coast of Portorož and a Venetian Gothic palace on the main square of Koper.
What if telepathy is not science fiction, but a flicker beneath the tongue – sensed only by beings sensitive enough, like octopuses and fungi? What if the Slovenian coastline between Piran and Koper is already speaking – through microbial layers, salt rituals, and the roaring logistics of the port? The artists of Intruders, Uninvited into Chaos draw from this tension: the slowness of petola and the speed of the port, extraterrestrial forms and ambient signals.
It is not about understanding, but about tuning in – to listen to sculptural prosthetics made for an unknown species, to texts floating like unstable frequencies, and to sound as a speculative atmosphere.
The exhibition does not decode the strange; it stays with it. Somewhere between the Venetian palace and the salt warehouse, the landscape begins to mutate. It remembers us – hazily, begrudgingly, yet lovingly. Not to dominate, but to maintain. Not to reveal, but to connect. This zone does not promise clarity. It offers disarray as a form of care. Fear is unnecessary; curiosity matters.
Andrej Škufca (b. 1987) has, over the past decade, emerged as a key figure of Slovenia’s younger generation of artists through several significant exhibitions.
His speculative installations are less objects than landscapes – where the memory of a world once inhabited by humans glimmers through.
Free entrance.