Cadet is a project that stems from a cluster of artistic research involving an object: a Vanilla Pudding dessert from Slovenia. Last year Urša buried it, this year she is sending it to Near Space with the help of KNMI. The pudding is an artifact of a trivial memory, which is very intimately connected to Urša her history. Urša: “Understanding one’s past is an effort to make sense of identity, and simply, ways of being. How much of our (inexperienced) history impacts us?” The project is about control – not only physical but also intelligible. The act of sending the object almost 40km into the stratosphere creates the ultimate distance. It will go to a place she will never be able to go; the furthest she can distance herself (physically) from the trivial memory which is becoming an obsession.
ABOUT URŠA
Urša Prek (1993) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Eindhoven. Her work, ranging from visual art to sound installations, focuses on the concept of space. The way we perceive space is a curiosity that drives Urša to re-evaluate spatial experience in connection with (personal) history and memory.
