The solo exhibition brings together a body of works from 2022 and 2023. The content of the works appear to be unspectacular artefacts from Urša’s youth in Slovenia, such as the cheap vanilla pudding in plastic cups that play a leading role. In at least four works – Shedding (2022), Event Horizon, Champion: participation award, and Cadet (all 2023) – pudding has become the recurring topic in last years’ practice. We forget things, but sometimes everyday things can revive a world and allow us to experience the present with a renewed perspective. This simple dessert demonstrates this remarkable power of memory.

The aesthetics of the wildlife observation towers in the forests of Slovenia form the core of the 2023 work Bear Witness. For Prek, these contain multiple layers of presence. They are built to observe wildlife and as posts for hunters within forest around the country. As a child, they were also her favourite hiding places during family hikes. They are simultaneously safe havens and spaces of power: watching without being seen. The relationship between power and childish ignorance tells us something about the collective past of its environment, such as for instance the Yugoslav identity. Although she was not actively part of the Yugoslavian conflicts the connection is still part of her identity through the collective memory of the environment.

After uncovering the layers of meaning, the objects from her memory lose their apparent insignificance and create possibilities to develop statements about culture and mentality in a period from the past and present as well.