Znamenja Casa/Sign of the Times 1. [antikvár]

We are not reestablishing bonds with the past in order to nostalgically waste our time with what has long since passed. Neither are we tempted by indigenous aesthetic qualities that cling to the kitchen threshold and fear everything that is hidden behind the neighbour's fence. Furthermore collecting, registering items and analysing folk art are tasks which have undoubtedly been and will be better performed by ethnologists. This sort of rummaging through half or even totally forgotten knick-knacks from the Slovene heritage is a matter of sheer pleasure - the delight over what has been found and the creative challenge of how to redesign, reinterpret and repackage a selected heritage in a contemporary way. Share it with others. Present it to those who are simply unfamiliar with it. Bring it into the living room from a museum mount. Adopt a keepsake picked up while cleaning the dust, transforming it into something alive and practical, while not forgetting the story drawn like a thin thread behind each of the selected articles when leading us to their roots. Well, our roots, of course. Each artefact is of greater interest when it has its own tale to tell. And what if it hasn't? Have we just made it up then in the same way our ancestors conjured them up during the long winter evenings.