Location:
A-101, EKA
A-101, EKA
Start Date:
15.10.2025
Start Time:
17:30
End Date:
15.10.2025
Slideshow #6: Grey Area
Dexter Sinister
Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 17:30h
A-101
You find yourself somewhere in-between: a grey area on the mezzanine floor of a large public arts centre. The building was originally a sugar refinery, built in 1838. It evolved into low-cost housing occupied by factory workers and soldiers, artists and writers, and became a cultural hub. After falling into disrepair, the city of Ljubljana bought the property and restored it to its previous form, reopening as Cukrarna in 2021.
This intermediate space has lower ceilings than the white-cube gallery floors that sandwich it above and below. It wasn’t designed to be an exhibition space, but rather a place for events, conversations, gatherings, and other temporary activities. For the next year, it will be decorated and programmed by Dexter Sinister, the composite working name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey.
Look around: the room is lined with wall-to-wall medium-grey carpet and the walls are painted to match; windows are masked to modulate the sun and filter an even, grey light. It’s mostly empty except for a few bean bags and a couple of tables, all in matching grey as well. In this space, Dexter Sinister will present one video each month by a designer, artist, or group whose work exists somewhere in the middle of art and design, including a few of our own works.
As you enter on the left are a series of white rectangles, each painted according to a standard video aspect ratio. Projected into one of these, depending on when you are reading this, is a video.
About Dexter Sinister
Dexter Sinister is the compound working name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. In 2000 David formed the design studio O-R-G and Stuart co-founded the arts journal Dot Dot Dot. In 2006 they jointly established Dexter Sinister as a ‘just-in-time workshop and occasional bookstore’ on New York City’s Lower East Side. Together with Angie Keefer in 2011 they founded the publishing/archiving platform The Serving Library (www.servinglibrary.
About Slideshow
Slideshow is a lecture-to-book series inviting practicing graphic designers to talk about the research, references and working processes behind the making of their applied work. The series opens up the discussion and makes visible how graphic design practices engage in a research process. The series asks designers to unpack their work through reflecting on the material they engage with, informal encounters they might have, or processes they’ve experimented with. The series is organized and edited by Alexandra Margetic and Sean Yendrys, and published through the MA in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.