THE GIFT OF FAILURE
Artist: Luka Uršič
Failure as a point of departure for potential future success is today a key part of the artistic process. What might elsewhere be understood as an error or anomaly can become an expressive value and a space of freedom in art. With new works produced this year in the MGLC Print Studio, Luka Uršič explores the potential of his artistic practice as a reparative mechanism.
Through screenprinting interventions on the unsuccessful and discarded Polaroid photographs by others, the artist returns to the source of failure and symbolically takes on the blame and responsibility for failed actions. In this way, he confronts his own and others’ unease, while simultaneously attempting to approach the liberating possibility of redemptive correction and improvement.
Curator: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec
MGLC Tivoli Mansion, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 June – 30 August 2026
Producer: International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
Support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Photos: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.
