Atmosphering

At Pixxelpoint 2025, Plaza appears at a site located between Nova Gorica and Solkan and suspended between troubled industrial histories and futures of urban development. Here, Plaza conspires with the atmosphere, as both a material and psychological phenomenon shaped by natural and anthropogenic forces, forming at the threshold between physical reality and imagination, bridging the external and internal.

A gust of air or a ray of light entering an enclosed space exerts an influence both material (air pressure, moisture, temperature…) and immaterial (psychological, emotional, magical…), announcing a sudden presence of something invading from the outside. The objects encountered in the building and its surrounding area speak especially to movements of air and natural light, which appear here as both physical effects and symbolic triggers or suggestions.The objects direct or reflect sunlight, welcome and receive winds, form micro-climates and psycho-vortexes, or mark and make the places where the atmosphere shifts and spirals. They act as strange artifacts or instruments conjuring atmospheric influences and modulations. Together, they activate the given location as a liminal area, suggesting a new protocol of perception — between fact and fiction, function and meaning, physics and magic, reason and superstition, environment and psyche — warping and weirding reality beyond these divisions.