CONTEXT 008: Toni Soprano Meneglejte

Toni Soprano Meneglejte (Metka Golec) develops her artistic practice at the intersection of digital, physical, and fictional spaces. From her work with the son:DA duo, which explored the logic of cables and networks, to her later theatre projects and the pseudonym Toni Soprano Meneglejte, her practice is characterised by constant shifts between reality and its digital reflections.

At the heart of the exhibition is a desktop documentary that explores the artist’s archive in a manner possible today: via the screen, online fragments, and digital remnants. The film transitions from early internet gestures to endless algorithmic loops and emotional BFF experiments, in which the digital world becomes an intimate interlocutor. The viewer gradually enters a space where the boundary between the body and its digital extension is blurred, and where the “other” becomes one’s own reflection.

Half a life in the digital world, half in dreams

The desktop documentary, the centrepiece of the exhibition, is based on a portrait of the artist, on the search for and exploration of her artistic practice. It is a hybrid film that enters her archive in the only possible way: via the screen, online fragments, and digital remnants. Navigating the archive involves endless browsing through online content. Images, photographs, signs, and data are assembled to create new shapes. The format itself – the screen, windows, the cursor, doomscrolling – becomes a mode of the narrative. It is a journey into the space between dreams, the body, and the digital cloud, where it becomes increasingly unclear whether technology imitates humans or humans imitate technology – and when their emotional logics begin to overlap.

The film begins with early fascinations with the internet and technology, exploring the initial gestures, signals, and first emotional responses of the digital space. It then progresses into infinity, into algorithmic loops and doomscrolling, where images and data become a rapid stream with no end in sight. Starting with cables and infrastructure, the journey progresses to emotional experiments with BFF, marking a transition in which the digital space becomes an intimate and increasingly complex landscape. In the final scenes, the film departs from the concept of the archive and enters the emotional field: a place where the digital world begins to give back to humans what it previously received from them – attention, closeness, a sense of consensus. The digital other emerges as a reflection of the viewer; not as a threat, but as a new emotional entity that exists only in dialogue. The boundary is finally blurred, and the rules are transformed.

Video authors: Hana Podvršič, Lana Požlep
Music: Sophie Renger
Producer: Špela Kopitar
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana