🩲 SILVIO VUJIČIĆ, MIRO ROMAN & SOLL: Mediterranean Space Exploration Suit
(Un)Tamed Sea, exhibition @ Galerija Filodrammatica, Rijeka
6. - 27. 3. 2025.
* the work was created in the framework of the
@madeinplatform residency (produced by
@drugomore &
@oaza_kolektiv )
📸 Tanja Kanazir & Borut Brozović
"The Mediterranean is not land; it is the space between lands. Not a territory, but an abstraction — fluid, shifting, uncontainable. It is the sea, the cosmos, the digital ether. A domain where gods, traders, exiles, lovers, and machines meet, where culture, nature, sex, literacy, and technology reinvent themselves into new forms of existence. The ‘Mediterranean Space Exploration Suit’ by SOLL is not merely apparel; it is an instrument of entanglement, a trap for the restless, a passage that negotiates the real and the rational. It does not protect — it provokes. It does not frame the Mediterranean; it extends it."
"(...) It connects what should not be connected — organic to synthetic, history to simulation, silk to silicon, hands to data. Ancient pigments — Tyrian purple, Egyptian blue — are extracted, applied, digitized, and rendered. Myths are scraped, reassembled, reconfigured. Poseidon becomes a hotspot. The Space Exploration Suit ingests them all — Homeric epics, GPS signals, war manifestos, erotic inscriptions — and compresses them into a layered coating.
"A suit is meant to protect. This one does the opposite. It makes the wearer permeable, exposed to data streams, cultural torrents, celestial speculation. It is part archive, part scandal. Worn, it transforms the body into a site of transmission. What was once Mediterranean — bounded by coasts, controlled by empires — goes beyond the planetary. The Mediterranean Space Exploration Suit is not about physical space, but space of relations. The suit is not a solution; it is a spectrum of resolutions. It circulates between epochs, between seas, between simulations. It is not safe. It uncovers and explores."
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