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Grey Area
Dexter Sinister
x Cukrarna
2/10/2024-30/9/2025
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You find yourself somewhere in-between: a grey area on the mezzanine floor of a large public arts centre. The building was originally a sugar refinery, built in 1838. It evolved into low-cost housing occupied by factory workers and soldiers, artists and writers, and became a cultural hub. After falling into disrepair, the city of Ljubljana bought the property and restored it to its previous form, reopening as Cukrarna in 2021.
This intermediate space has lower ceilings than the white-cube gallery floors that sandwich it above and below. It wasn't designed to be an exhibition space, but rather a place for events, conversations, gatherings, and other temporary activities. For the next year, it will be decorated and programmed by Dexter Sinister, the composite working name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey.
Look around: the room is lined with wall-to-wall medium-grey carpet and the walls are painted to match; windows are masked to modulate the sun and filter an even, grey light. It's mostly empty except for a few bean bags and a couple of tables, all in matching grey as well. In this space, Dexter Sinister will present one video each month by a designer, artist, or group whose work exists somewhere in the middle of art and design, including a few of our own works.
As you enter on the left are a series of white rectangles, each painted according to a standard video aspect ratio. Projected into one of these, depending on when you are reading this, is a video.
Other videos will follow, monthly through October 2025.
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Dexter Sinister
x Cukrarna
2/10/2024-30/9/2025
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You find yourself somewhere in-between: a grey area on the mezzanine floor of a large public arts centre. The building was originally a sugar refinery, built in 1838. It evolved into low-cost housing occupied by factory workers and soldiers, artists and writers, and became a cultural hub. After falling into disrepair, the city of Ljubljana bought the property and restored it to its previous form, reopening as Cukrarna in 2021.
This intermediate space has lower ceilings than the white-cube gallery floors that sandwich it above and below. It wasn't designed to be an exhibition space, but rather a place for events, conversations, gatherings, and other temporary activities. For the next year, it will be decorated and programmed by Dexter Sinister, the composite working name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey.
Look around: the room is lined with wall-to-wall medium-grey carpet and the walls are painted to match; windows are masked to modulate the sun and filter an even, grey light. It's mostly empty except for a few bean bags and a couple of tables, all in matching grey as well. In this space, Dexter Sinister will present one video each month by a designer, artist, or group whose work exists somewhere in the middle of art and design, including a few of our own works.
As you enter on the left are a series of white rectangles, each painted according to a standard video aspect ratio. Projected into one of these, depending on when you are reading this, is a video.
Other videos will follow, monthly through October 2025.
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