CIRCULAR CYCLE, 2025

Video Installation

Circular Cycle transforms the monitor into a continuous, perpetuum mobile–like circular mechanism. Two protagonists pedal their bicycles in a perpetual loop along the monitor’s curved edge, suggesting that the media space mirrors the conditions of physical space while simultaneously perfecting them through technology. Physical effort appears to defy gravity. Yet the looping motion also echoes the visual language of digital interfaces — the spinning icon of perpetual loading — blurring the line between human endurance and the seamless flow of the virtual.

*Video documentation of solo exhibition And Now for Something Completely Different 17, Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; video installation Circular Cycle at 0 min 40 sec (1 min 39 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjXhN-9CHIo

BIOGRAPHY

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak have been working as a collective since 2003. In their artistic practice they examine contemporary media and capital driven society as they dissect its visual and linguistic structure.

They have exhibited worldwide, in venues like the Sharjah Biennial (UAE), Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo (JP), Istanbul Biennial (TR), Transmediale Berlin (DE), FILE Sao Paulo (BR)... Oblak & Novak received numerous grants and awards, including the CYNETART Award (DE), an honorary mention at Biennale WRO (PL), White Aphroid Award by MMC KIBLA (SI) and Rihard Jakopič honorable mention, highest national award for visual arts (SI).