On Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 6 p.m., we invite you to MGBS for Lučka Centa's performance: ved'ma.
40 min, 2025, universal language, free entry
Ved’ma looks at life and death at the same time, as its blood is drawn directly from the earth. Trapped in the patriarchal conflict, she remains wild, unruly, and untameable. Love with the wild and belong freely. Above all, she trusts herself - she is the embodiment of the self that knows no fear.
The performance by Lučka Centa focuses on an updated archetype of the witch, the rebellious and untameable, self-sufficient and uninhibited, who belongs freely and by her own will. She is no longer an ancient Slavic witch, a monstrous outcast, but an empowered modern feminist who, inseparably linked to the environment, weaves a rebellion against patriarchy and capitalism, against the shameless exploitation and enslavement of natural resources and living beings.
The ecofeminist statement is also hidden in the scenographic elements: part of the performance is the wood from this year's clear-cutting on Grajski grič in Ljubljana, which has stirred public opinion. During the performance, the scenographic elements transform from the objects to subjective extensions of the artist's body or perhaps even come to life as symbionts. With them, the artist gives a voice to the unheard nature or takes it for herself. In the meaningful red light from the pile of earth and the artist's strong anchoring presence, a magic emerges, her body gradually merging with the bundle of branches, her movement, this intertwining of matter and body, illustrating the search for contact and balance between the social and the natural in new ways of connected empowered coexistence.
The event is part of the performative program curated by Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk (The Tape and ved’ma), and Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś (Line, 68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart).
You can read more about the exhibition Places for Deliberation: Barbara Kozłowska here.