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Reductio ad (aurum) absurdum

2011-07-05T01:43:00.006+02:00

installation, found objects and golden leaves

variable dimensions, 2011.

The installation conveys the method of reductio ad absurdum – a process of refutation on grounds that absurd – and patently untenable consequences would ensue from accepting the item at issue. A pair of plaster hands is juxtaposed with shredded gold, as if grabbing and dropping that precious and cherished material of ambiguous symbolism (both preciousness and greed). I wanted to reflect on our constant urge to sustain material values, as well as to question the process of the construction of values, their (in)constancy or (im)mutability, and suggest their reduction to absurdity.

LOOSE PUMP

2010-10-10T13:17:00.019+02:00

Site-specific installation, neons signs in the high school gymnasium

25th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak, Serbia

My practice often involves infiltrating art into public and institutional spaces. A gymnasium is a place that has a significant influence in the development of (self)discipline, (self)control as well as a consciousness of one’s body. The installation draws attention to the current obsession with the fetishism of the body, the need to discipline it, pump the muscles, stay young and fit. The neon words activate the space of a gymnasium by introducing a contemporary visual vocabulary, words that can go together to create a certain flow in the meaning as well as juxtapose the contraries, perplexing the common place. The intention is to encourage visitors to ponder the current preoccupation with the beauty stereotypes, by ‘enlightening’ the possible alternative values.

Black Diamond

2010-06-04T22:27:00.033+02:00

I heard a puff, I heard a blow I felt the ground, I felt the snow I heard a grunt, I heard a moan I felt the sun, I saw the moon I saw the northern light above And the eclipse of the sun I am a breath, I am a wish I am a rocket, And a fish I felt his measures and his weight My own body as a scale You heard a whisper in my ear You are not here, you are not there So in love that I could die The eclipse of the sun My foot was hurt, my knees were sore And I wondered why it burned Then I had to climb down I went up to see the sun rise And then I had to climb back up again I had to be there to see the sun rise For the air that you sent to guide me had a tone of elephant grey I know what I'm made of Cause I was warmed by the sun The sun And I'm looking for you And I'm glad I found me A special kind of personality When the spark goes out of you It grows ten times bigger in me I am the darkest lady I am your lung By the sun

DVD video loop, 2010

The work began as a certain “je ne sais quoi”; it started out of pure jouissance, an enjoyment in the continuous movement, in the between states, and the elusiveness of the route that leads nowhere, as well as a pleasure in anticipating the lack of sense and meaning. Then I added the ‘black diamond’ – a flat shape juxtaposed over the video that floats and runs through the landscape, partially and occasionally blocking out the Sun, tracing the ‘lines of flight’. I wanted to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the video, flatness of the images and their artificiality.

GAP

2009-08-06T18:48:00.017+02:00

Solo exhibition, Gallery of Cultural Center Dom Omladine, Belgrade, June 2009.

The installation view of the solo exhibition ‘GAP’. A multimedia show colliding several pieces opens up questions of aesthetics, fashion, medicine, and politics. Pieces exhibited: GAP - blue neon sign; “Still Life” - burned and exploded old clothes; “Parallel lines getting tangled” - installation of 1996 sequins bonded in threads; “Switch” - video loop and “Weaseled World” - appropriated kinetic toy.

Parallel lines getting tangled

The installation of 1996 sequins bonded in threads. They start coming out of the gap in the wall and then proceed on the floor, creating a reflective surface. The result is something very ambivalent, a mysterious matter coming out of the unknown source, resembling a swarm of black insects or menacing dark water, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ghastly. The title implies how something straight and clear can easily become tangled and twisted.

latest news

2009-03-19T22:53:00.009+01:00

7:45 Sunny, cold. Wind making strange noise.

8:00 Food stamp diet

9:40 He complained of low mood
10:00 Second life due to recession
10:25 Your hands are warm

12:00 Cholesterol check
1:20 What if you lost everything?

2:15 A man on the bus told me: "You don't look happy "
3:10 Time will heal. What if time was the illness

4:30 27 bodies found
5:00 Profiting from tragedy
5:15 We turned into coldest silence
5:40 I feel your despair
6:00 I couldn't say who I am. But I am here, I am free.

7:30 Ban: Security situatuion stable
8:30 You are my wonder drug
9:10 Now, in this very place, a feeling of happiness that I could always have.

10:30 Man beats up kangaroo home invader

00:05 I am too tired to sleep
00:30 How should I live? How should I think?

2:15 We two are more than us two.
2:17 Where do we stand?

2:20 The whole world is taking part in our decision.
3:00 I am happy with you

The future of political blogging ...

Originally, this was an installation in the Business School of Alfred University (Alfred, New York) in May 2007. I used large LED monitors in the financial trade room, used to communicate text-based data, mostly stock market information and news. I subverted the ordinary deal-room information with sentences about emotions, relationships, facts and misinformation about depression, ironic quotes about money, power and domination; left some real news and mixed them with private events. This work stays alive, as 'news' and 'facts' stay as ambiguous as our representation of them. The point is not to make a statement, but to intervene in the flow of things.

are you lost? found? searched?

2009-03-19T22:44:00.005+01:00

Weaseled World

dis>trust<

2009-03-18T14:14:00.012+01:00

>general anxiety disorder<

>attention deficit disorder<

>social phobia<

>paranoid disorder<

Neon signs are usually used to represent or advertise something pleasurable, desirable and beautiful; yet, in this case, they are sending the depressing message of the pervading human mental state - psychological disorders. By connecting the psychological disorders with the color alert threat system, I want to reflect on why we submit ourselves to illusions even when we know that is what they are.

otherness

2009-03-17T21:44:00.017+01:00

Blue - an open door to
soul, an infinite possibility
becoming tangible...

Blue is the universal love
in which man bathes. It is
the terrestrial paradise...

For blue, there are no
boundaries or solutions

Blue drags black in it.*

The work is a metaphor of the body in its most carnal, existential and essential state, confronting the human condition in an objectified, vulnerable and seductively powerful form. The video projected in a fireplace reveals the inside of the heart transformed into a disembodied weird being, an eerie and menacing creature, pulsating and trying to break its membrane. The sound is almost physical. Complete heart blocks, hypertension, systolic insufficiency, murmurs interrupted by short moments of silence are pervading the space transforming it into someplace ghostly. The amorphousness of the unfinished piece induces anxiety and visceral fear.
The baffling mixture of the normal and fantastic, corporeal and spiritual as well as artificial being leave the viewer in a liminal stage. The public is left reeling, simultaneously seduced and alienated, relishing the attraction but at the same time aware of something disquieting, something ‘other’.

*Derek Jarman, "Blue"

switch

2009-03-17T20:21:00.025+01:00

switch, video loop

installation view

I enjoy exploring human body, its parts and organs; its fullness and gaps, as well as its complexities and rich symbolism. The video loop “Switch” reveals the extreme close-up of the eyeball. Its closeness and manic movements are so present and distressing we can almost smell it. The incessant switch between the fleshy, shiny white part of the eye and the black pupil creates frantic yet poetic feeling. ‘Glowing eyes’ are considered a symbol of jouissance. A small body part is turned into a large landscape of wavy blood vessels, resembling schemes of rivers. The pupil evokes a moonlight and shimmering reflective curtain a starry sky.

The overwhelming live noise of a neon tube fills the room. A cracked open microphone picks up the magnetic field around the tube creating very strong, abrasive resonance. Being interactive with its surrounding, the sound is very unpredictable. During the process of making art, I cherish those erratic moments that disrupt the initial idea, but open up new possibilities. I keep the relations open and mutable: the materials are assembled but not forced into narrow connection. Such freedom also brings with it a dynamics of operation, a fluidity of visions and associations.

burned and exploded clothes with ashes, installation details

Theatrical setting made of sculpture, video projections, text and installations, articulates the notion of darkness as a fantastical territory of wonderment and possibly enlightenment. An uninhibited room collides issues of moral and political responsibility, cultural conflicts, disputability of terror, the brevity of existence, alienation, annihilation, non-belonging, materialist obsessions; a quixotic world where beauty stands next to ugliness, rapture meets disgust and reason illusion.

Intimacy

2009-03-17T18:45:00.012+01:00

installation in the Alte Saline (old Salt Factory), slide projection on salt
realized during Katharina Sieverding's workshop at the Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria, in 2005.

Absent Minded

2009-03-09T16:51:00.015+01:00

black and white photographs, 210x130cm

developed in the workshop by Professor Katharina Sieverding at the Summer Academy in Salzburg, in 2005.

The photographs evoke complex and mixed feelings about women’s submission. A violence is implied in the images, but it is not obvious. The story remains fragmentary because of the cropped and decontextualised details, yet these are emotionally emphatic images. Although women’s submissive role is not so obvious today, it’s still a “man’s world” where it is bad to show any sign of weakness. Contrary to this perspective, I wanted to show the fragility of the woman’s body and the general delicateness and vulnerability.