In (DAI, 2013) alumna Maja Hodošček's video installation Too Simple and Too Easy, the artist delves deep into horizontal learning, more specifically, learning of a foreign language. A group of high school students works together to translate a cut from the film Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, which juxtaposes a French family in front of a TV set with a community of Palestinian revolutionaries, and questions in terms of essence the status of an image that relays a remote social reality. Maja's eponymous solo exhibition Too Simple and Too Easy is part of the international project Borderlines and can be visited at KGLU in Slovenia.
Maja Hodošček solo exhibition Too Simple and Too Easy was curated by Maja Antončič and Andreja Hribernik.
KGLU - Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, 20. 10. - 31. 12. 2020
KGLU - Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, 20. 10. - 31. 12. 2020
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The artist Maja Hodošček centres her work on high-school youth, their behaviour during the education process, and development of critical thinking using informal learning and establishment of a variety of dynamics of teamwork and interpersonal relations. In her videos, the artist indirectly searches for new possibilities that a young subject can establish in relation to formal, conventional and rigid social structures. With actual proximity of her camera, she thoughtfully discloses the gestures by portraying a collective situation, including vulnerable parts or deficiencies – and it is precisely this kind of approach that restores the youth's visibility.
In her video installation Too Simple and Too Easy, the artist delves deep into horizontal learning, more specifically, learning of a foreign language. A group of high school students works together to translate a cut from the film Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, which juxtaposes a French family in front of a TV set with a community of Palestinian revolutionaries, and questions in terms of essence the status of an image that relays a remote social reality. The complex, yet still relevant topic of the film, does not hinger the youth seeking to rise above the language barriers. A statement from the film, "It is too simple and too easy to divide the world in two", becomes a tool for learning French and Arabic; yet through a specific experiential situation of the learning process, it underscores the universal message and thus activates the questions of division, community and solidarity. Maja Hodošček's video takes us down the path of an essential idea of many Godard's films, as "school thus becomes the good place which removes us from cinema and reconciles us with 'reality' (a reality to be transformed, naturally)", as the film critic Serge Daney puts it. (Maja Antončič)
In her video installation Too Simple and Too Easy, the artist delves deep into horizontal learning, more specifically, learning of a foreign language. A group of high school students works together to translate a cut from the film Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, which juxtaposes a French family in front of a TV set with a community of Palestinian revolutionaries, and questions in terms of essence the status of an image that relays a remote social reality. The complex, yet still relevant topic of the film, does not hinger the youth seeking to rise above the language barriers. A statement from the film, "It is too simple and too easy to divide the world in two", becomes a tool for learning French and Arabic; yet through a specific experiential situation of the learning process, it underscores the universal message and thus activates the questions of division, community and solidarity. Maja Hodošček's video takes us down the path of an essential idea of many Godard's films, as "school thus becomes the good place which removes us from cinema and reconciles us with 'reality' (a reality to be transformed, naturally)", as the film critic Serge Daney puts it. (Maja Antončič)