In the gallery of the MKC in Skopje on August 14, at 20 p.m., the independent exhibition "Night forest: uncertain meanings and the path through the unknown" by Dorothej Neshovski will be opened.

– His latest artistic production, which Dorothej Nešovski titles as "Night forest", is a continuation of his research methods long-term dedicated to the transformative potential of several simple formal elements and materials with which he works in different formats: wooden crayons, verticals, shadows, transparent layers, which have the main role in this setting as well.

In Dorothei's artistic practice, they are used not in their obvious function, but as a display of complex formal and metaphorical structures - bearers of uncertain meanings. Wooden crayons form microenvironments that resemble cities or urban objects and formations; the shavings resulting as excess waste material from the process of sharpening the wooden crayons in this case make us wonder what (can) be done with the accumulations of remaining forms and materials. How, through this accumulation of meanings, might we formulate the complex relationship between natural environments and human communities? - points out the visual artist Darko Alexovski, who is the curator of the exhibition and the author of the text for the catalog.

The project is financed by the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award.

Dorotej Nešovski (1989, Skopje) is an interdisciplinary artist who deals with the concepts of creative spontaneity, artistic articulation, social inclusion, pedagogy and abstraction of the gallery-audience-artist relationship whose interests include participatory activities, methodologies of mapping and resonance, non-institutional action, research practices and child education. Since 2012, he is one of the founders and a member of the artistic group "ZEE", with which he has realized several projects.

Neshovski graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje at the department of sculpture with a minor in scenography (2012). His book "Art is not what you want", published by "Private Print" from Skopje, was published in 2017. He lives and works in Skopje. Since 2015, he has been actively organizing and conceptualizing children's workshops at the Children's Creative Center at MCC.