Nina Tovornik (1995) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture, and is currently completing her Master’s degree at the Department of Sculpture. Since 2019 she has been exhibiting regularly and participating in number of sculpture competitions, workshops and residencies. In 2022, she completed two public sculptures in Črna na Koroškem and Vrhnika (Slovenia), for which she received the Prešeren Student Award. In 2024 she held her first solo exhibition at the Ravne Gallery (KGLU). She lives and works in Ljubljana.

The sculpture by artist Nina Tovornik entitled Eat, My Brother’s Horses, is made from one solid piece of oak wood and represents a kind of modern totem, referring to the overwhelming greed of a human. In the highly expressive manner of chainsaw-modelled sculpture, the monumental piece represents a mythological monster that embodies the collective desire and hunger of the human kind for the accumulation of both the material goods and the symbolic statuses. In doing so, the artist critically analyses the global neoliberal turn of modern societies and makes a monument to unrestrained consumerism.