The work entitled Spatial Predictability #2 (presented at DUM Association, Ljubljana, together with Mladen Stropnik at the exhibition One Landscape in December 2025).

This time, Babnik presents a new variation of this ongoing piece, in which he focuses on the discourse of mediated images and their complex relationship with a space. As a professional photographer, he often documents exhibitions and exhibition spaces, which usually aim to provide a neutral effect. The principle of the white cube gallery space is similar to the principle of product or portrait photography, where a neutral background emphasises the objects placed in front of the camera. Therefore, he seeks for specific spatial solutions in exhibition spaces and highlights humorous anomalies in order to expose the mechanisms that help establish the conventions of visual culture and acquired aesthetics. Babnik intervenes in a gallery space with photographs of fragmented images of exhibition spaces, which he places on plinths, hinting at the learned nature of cultural codes and the predictability of spatial solutions in visual culture and visual art. Therefore, he focuses primarily on art itself; he addresses social status of a work of art and the organisation and overall appearance of the spaces for showcasing (visual) art. Such critical and analytical (self)reflection of his own professional and/or artistic engagement is also a kind of introspection of the art world itself.

The work ongoing Spatial Predictability is the result of a long-term process that refers to the characteristics of a particular exhibition space that the artist occupies and inhabits.

Miha Colner