INSTINCT – BLOOM(IN)

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

INSTINKT – BLOOM (IN)
Senzorično popotovanje od prvinskega
impulza do notranjega razcveta.
(delo v nastajanju)

Alma Medana – creative space, Brda, 7.3.2026

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

Dotično edicijo dela v nastajanju prenašamo iz odrskega formata v galerijski format, tukaj in zdaj. Osvetljujemo korpus, volumen form, teksturnost različnih materialov in linije sobivanja znotraj arhitekturne danosti. V središču je telo in čutna platforma. Svetlobni snopi in snopki nas usmerjajo v zgodbe; vsaka zase opolnomočene in bogate pripovedi, ki skupaj tvorijo knjigo z mnogo stranmi, poglavji, novelami, poezijo, biografijo, avtobiografijo,… knjigo ženskih sanj, ženskega telesa, arhetipa, divjosti in senzibilitete. Repeticija nam da moč. Repeticija nam odpre plasti. Repeticija nam pričara eho. Repeticija nas drži. Repeticija nas bogati. Repeticija…

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.

Z umetniško zasedbo tokratnega vsestranskega procesa Things I Miss razvijamo nov umetniški projekt, ki potuje skozi organskost, navdih in instinktivnost dela v nastajanju. Proces teče skozi različne prehode in trenutke. Skupaj lovimo ritem in življenjske cikle posameznih stanj ter skušamo vse med seboj povezati v zgodbo, držati nit narative in osmisliti skupno popotovanje in pot; skupen navdih, skupen razcvet in skupna čutenja. Projekt raziskuje instinkt in cikličnost življenja: popke, razcvete, umirjanje in ponovno zorenje. Potujemo skozi materijo telesnega in naravnega. V središču raziskovanja je sobivanje telesa z zvokom, gibom, prostorom, občutki, utripom, dihom, ritmom, frekvencami in barvami. Projekt se poglablja v barvno krajino instinkta in razcveta, v svetlobo in organske teksture, predvsem tiste, ki nastajajo iz recikliranih materialov, prepletene s formo telesa. Iščemo ozaveščeno vizijo druge kože, telesa in bivanja – tukaj in zdaj. Zvesti konceptu Things I Miss ostajamo v domeni surovega in prvinskega, a tokrat potujemo še globlje: v organsko, v zavedanje, v stik med bitjem, bivanjem in sobivanjem. Projekt je na svoji življenjski poti številnih preobrazb, pa vendarle z enako hrbtenico, srcem in rdečo nitjo; vedno variacija na isto temo.

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

Statement projekta: ozaveščanje o minljivosti življenja, o pomenu čutiti in (do)živeti  vsak trenutek življenja in razcveta.