INSTINCT – BLOOM(IN)

INSTINCT - BLOOM(IN)
From a stage format to a gallery format

INSTINCT – BLOOM (IN)
A sensory journey from primal
impulse to inner bloom.
(work in progress)

Alma Medana – creative space, Brda, 7.3.2026

Tina Princ, Things I Miss / concept, design
Matej Komar in Cassie Kagen, Mosquito Hair Lab / hair concept
Dominika Zver / tailoring segment
Eva Trapečar / video-image landscape
Stojancho Georgiev / soundscape
Ana Pandur / movement and formations
Tomaž Mihelič / movement and formations
Sašo Vollmaier / content brainstorming
Katja Gönc, Nastja Ogrizek / Oﬄine magazine
Martina Alma, Aleš Krebs / Alma Medana – creative space
Anja Podbevšek, Eneja Šuštaršič / communication
Anja Hribar / photography
Nino Bektashashvili / photography
Petja Muck / photography
Marijo Zupanov / photography

This specific edition of the work in progress is being reconfigured from a stage format to a gallery format, here and now. We illuminate the corpus, the volume of forms, the textures of diverse materials, and the lines of coexistence within the given architecture. At the center lies the body and the sensory platform. Beams and clusters of light guide us through stories—each a self-contained, empowered, and richly woven narrative that together form a book with many pages, chapters, novellas, poetry, biography, autobiography… a book of women’s dreams, the female body, archetypes, wildness, and sensibility. Repetition gives us strength. Repetition unveils layers. Repetition conjures echoes. Repetition holds us. Repetition enriches us. Repetition…

With the artistic ensemble of this multifaceted process, Things I Miss, we are developing a new art project that journeys through the organic, the inspired, and the instinctive nature of work in progress. The process unfolds through various transitions and moments. Together, we trace the rhythm and life cycles of individual states, attempting to weave them into a coherent narrative, to hold a thread of meaning, and to give shape to our shared journey and path: a collective inspiration, a joint blossoming, a convergence of feeling. The project explores instinct as a primal force that leads us, and the cyclical nature of life: buds, blooms, quieting, and re-ripening. We travel through the matter of the bodily and the natural. At the heart of our exploration is the coexistence of the body with sound, movement, space, sensation, pulse, breath, rhythm, frequency, and color. The project delves into the chromatic landscape of instinct and flowering, into light and organic textures—particularly those emerging from recycled materials, interwoven with the form of the body. We peer into the microcosm, observing the details of matter and the narratives these textures carry. We seek a conscious vision of a second skin, of the body, of being—here and now. True to the concept of Things I Miss, we remain in the realm of the raw and primal, yet this time we travel even deeper: into the organic, into awareness, into the touch between being, existence, and coexistence. The project follows a life path of numerous transformations, yet it retains the same backbone, heart, and red thread—a continuous variation on the same theme.

Project statement: raising awareness about the fleeting nature of life, about the importance of feeling and truly experiencing each moment of life and blossoming.