Nika Autor
BIO
Nika Autor is part of the collective Newsreel Front, an informal collective of workers coming from the field of film theory and art practice. Her practice is primarily based on experimental videos, hybrid documentary forms, film essays, newsreels, photography, text interventions, and spatial film and video installations. Her practice tackles topics such as migrations, workers’ rights, gender and memory politics, and the histories of resistances in under- and misrepresented spaces.
Her projects have been regularly presented at film festivals such as the Viennale, Crossing Europe, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, JEONJU, Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and others, and have been shown in major exhibitions in museums and galleries such as MoMA, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Jeu de Paume Paris, GARAGE, Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow, MIMA, Middlesbrough, Institute of Modern Art, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Vienna Künstlerhaus, MAXXI, and the National Museum of 21st Century Art. Nika Autor represented Slovenia with a solo exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.
WORK AT THE EXHIBITION
Newsreel 670 – Red Forests, 2022
16 mm digitalized
Red Forests rethinks the erection of the razor wire in the fields and forests along the border of the European Union, and considers the forests as a political space. A place where the history of secret shelters, refuge and secret practices of solidarity in different contexts and times is inscribed.
The Wire, from Goričko to Dragonja, 2019
pigment print, 150 cm × 100 cm (Dibond), edition 1/3+ AP
Polaroid (15 pieces), 18.5 cm × 21.5 cm, edition 1/1
In recent years, European Union countries have fenced off their eastern and southern borders with thousands of kilometres of fences, most often made of razor wire. The work documents the placing of razor wire along the Slovenian-Croatian border, in fields, along rivers and in forests. The photos were taken on the way from Goričko to Dragonja.
Courtesy: Newsreel Front, Nika Autor