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 2025, May 14
 - 2025, Jun 4
Nika Radić:
RHYTHM
GALLERY MKC / YOUTH CENTRE
EXHIBITION

Opening on Wednesday, May 14, at 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. every day except Sundays and holidays
NIKA RADIĆ studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and art history at the University of Vienna. In her works, she explores the problem of communication using photography, video, spatial and multimedia installations and other artistic practices. She has exhibited in more than two hundred solo and group exhibitions. She lives in Zagreb and Berlin and has recently been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

Curator: Jasna Gluić
Graphic design: Rafaela Dražić
Sound design: Corin Arnold
Technicians: Sergije Stipanović, Ivor Koren, Marin Renić
Translation: Brian Willems
Organization: MKC Split
Financial support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Split
Rhythm is a two-channel video installation that contrasts the different tempos in which people and plants live. The projections juxtapose a street dance parade and its foregrounded electronic rhythm with the imperceptible movement of legumes that dance much more slowly as they grow.

In biology, there is a term called ‘plant blindness’ that describes the human tendency not to see plants or, if we do notice them, to consider them less valuable. One explanation for this phenomenon, or our excuse, is the alleged absence of plant movement.

The work Rhythm points to the problem of the parallel existence of separate biological realities and the need to change one’s point of view by talking about discrepancies in the different rhythms in which numerous species live on Earth. When we transcend the differences in our time scales, we discover similarities in the lives of plants and humans, while at the same time reaffirming Uexküll's old thesis that there is no single world, and no space or time that is the same for all living things.