"Nina Slejko Blom’s latest trilogy is an extraordinary exploration of the personal, political, and poetic. With over 1,000 pages of images and texts, this ambitious trilogy offers a deeply intimate yet wide-ranging meditation on art, family, and society, weaving together the artist’s experiences across two distinct cultural landscapes—her native Slovenia and her adopted home of Sweden.
Slejko Blom’s work is a masterful interplay of contrasting realities. Her anthology of booklets, collected over years, captures the subtleties of contemporary life, including the clash of past and present, rural and urban, personal and communal. Through works like Small Talk (2021) and Unicorns Are Stupid (2023), she explores the everyday with sharp humor and poignant vulnerability, while titles like The Circle of Frankness (2024) and Prosopagnosia (2023) probe identity and human relationships in thought-provoking ways. Each piece is a stand-alone reflection, yet they form an interwoven narrative that challenges and invites the reader into a world both familiar and alien.
At the heart of this project is a profound comparison between Slovenia and Sweden—two places that symbolize, for Slejko Blom, different stages of life, mindsets, and artistic expression. Her work dissects notions of belonging, displacement, and national identity, while also addressing universal questions of normalcy, connection, and transformation, as seen in How foreign? and How at ease?.
The book, in its sheer breadth, becomes an interactive experience, much like her visual installations. It is a collection that asks questions rather than providing answers, with each page encouraging reflection on the worlds we inhabit and how they shape us.
Slejko Blom’s expansive work is a significant contribution to contemporary art and literature, a testimony to the power of observation and self-expression, and an essential commentary on the shared yet unique experiences of our time."
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