"Between Night and Day" is a multidisciplinary event by artist Norma De Saint Picman, initially inspired by Slovenian writer Drago Jančar's novel 'I Saw Her That Night', documentary photos of the Hribar Family, interwoven by the link with her personal story and that of her Family.

"Between Night and Day" is a multidisciplinary event by artist Norma De Saint Picman, initially inspired by Slovenian writer Drago Jančar's novel 'I Saw Her That Night', documentary photos of the Hribar Family, interwoven by the link with her personal story and that of her Family. Artist is reading some of her poems and excerpts of books, mixed with piano improvisations, in the "Piano Salon"of the Castle; the performance starts in the "Golden salon", equipped with Murano Glass lustre, splendid mirror and Titian's copy with singing of old Slovenian song "Kaj ti je deklica ...", loved by the heroine of the novel...The four painings - three portraits of the couple ( Ksenija, Rado, double portrait) and the tryptique "The shoot" are installed in the outside Green lobby of the Strmol Castle, where actually the performance starts. The literary part of the event is purely left to the author's emotional interpretation of historical past via documentary photos transcripted into paintings on solar panels, accompanied by some of her and her father's writings and poems. The whole idea is of transferring certain emotions, linked with our unconditional longing for Eternal Love, Freedom, and Mercy regardless to the cruelty of War, Betrayal, and Jaleaousy, through the missing part of the heroine's feminine expression. The tiny link between Love and Death, the transformation of jealously turned Love into Betrayal, a hidden admiration from a domestic staff towards a cultivated eccentric Lady Veronika, who walked her Aligator via Ljubljana's promenade, riding a car, motorcycle, and piloting a plane from Ljubljana to Strmol, broken through his fake announcement of her as Gestapo's Mistress. "As my Family from the paternal and maternal side was also negatively affected by the war as well as the post-war behaviors I was deeply attracted by the Story, and the fact of confrontation of a cultivated couple with on the one side rural and on the other politically impregnated environment. But I would never ever imagined the fact that happened, in August 2022, as working on the main tryptic, the blood, in a symbolic way pouring from the breast of one of the main characters, leaned on the North side of the studio building, got another physical equivalent in reality on the West side. Thy Symbol of a Gun, so frequently present on the Hribar's photos has been symbolically manifested through my Family's past, in a way that nobody could have ever imagined."