SPEKULA VII

SPEKULA manifest VII |
MATRIX – ALIENATED THOUGHT / Matrika – Odtujena misel |
Loža Gallery, 3.12.2025 – 28.02.2026.

ANDREJ SAVSKI, ZORA STANČIČ, ČRTOMIR FRELIH, MOJCA SMERDU |
Visual arts and spatial installations | Curated by prof. Dr. Tilen Žbona.

Matrix – The Alienated Thought is the title of the seventh artistic manifestation Spekula. At a time when the specificity of media messages, carriers, and content generators intertwines with the thoughts of both narrower and broader groups of users, readers, and mediators, individual thought is increasingly exposed to algorithmic platforms of artificial intelligence — and thus to distorted truths. As a counterpoint to this generated reality and unreality, the exhibition titled Matrix – The Alienated Thought responds as a genuine and tangible experience of ideas and reflections by the artists Andrej Savski, Zora Stančič, Črtomir Frelih, and Mojca Smerdu. The presented works are undoubtedly a transfer of the invisible into the visible realm — ideas embodied in matter, reaching deeply and concretely into the real experience of perceiving the given contents, concepts, contexts, and the artworks themselves. In this way, the seventh edition of the manifesto delves into the transmission of messages, meanings, and new genesis of reality.

Artistic director, prof. Dr. Tilen Žbona, University of Primorska.