A plus A Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by
Enej Gala: Neverevereverevereverever learn, which presents a series of works created by the artist over the last two years between his studio in Dolanci (Slovenia) and London, where he currently resides to attend the Royal Academy of Arts.
Retracing the footsteps of Richard Teschner, a singular puppeteer
who worked in the first half of the 20th century between Prague
and Vienna, the exhibition takes its shape around the artificiality
of an imaginary world in order to thoroughly rethink the moment
in which the human condition has been stratified by new hierarchies and conflicting rhetorics.

Painting, sculpture, video and theatre figure, reveal intermediate
realities composed of tender symbiosis but also fallible worlds of
precarious inventions regularly dismembered. Puppets with severe
amorphisms await their turn while Sisyphus and Minotaur merge
into a single puppet trapped in the loop of a short film set in an enchanting Barbie pink world, but at the same time alien, automated as a dystopian peristalsis. Objects of drudgery like wheelbarrows become soft plush toys ready to take on another impossible load, sculptures of fake fur thatreveal the ambiguity of this material, which invented for pure pleasure through a polluting industrial process, is at the same time redeemed to save animals from being hunted down for their fluff.

Nevereverevereverever learn is a dialectical glitch that maintains
a healthy negativism for which one will never learn, but will not
stop trying. The exhibition proposes a physical and mental space
where making mistakes becomes a driving force, a circuit formed
by small loops, challenging the generalised incomprehension that
prevents learning to observe.

Nevereverevereverever learn is a dialectical glitch that maintains
a healthy negativism for which one will never learn, but will not
stop trying. The exhibition proposes a physical and mental space
where making mistakes becomes a driving force, a circuit formed
by small loops, challenging the generalised incomprehension that
prevents learning to observe.

The project was made possible thanks to the support of Mattia Varini (Confezioni Grazia), Tomi Novak, Fabris Šulin, Grunt, Tridol
Studio and the Slovenian Ministry of Culture.

Enej Gala (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1990) lives and works between
London, Venice and Nova Gorica. Bachelor’s degree (2013) and
Biennale (2015) in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Did a study period at the Willem De Kooning Academy in
Rotterdam in 2014. He is taking part in the Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate Programme in London 2019-2023. Enej Gala has
participated in prestigious exhibitions such as the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art, invited by curator Nicola Lees in 2015. Viva Arte Viva, curated by Treti Galaxie for Outer Space, Futurdome, Milan. He recently exhibited at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene 2022. His solo exhibitions have also been numerous, starting at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, following his winning of the Stonefly prize. He also exhibited at the Michetti Foundation in 2020 and in various public museums in Slovenia, Italy and England.