четвртак, 13. јул 2017.

The Black Goddess in Pompeii


 https://vimeo.com/225365906

The Black Goddess in Pompeii- Gallery of Contemporary Art Niš,Salon 77-Bali-Bey Mosque

The Black Goddess in Pompeii 

……..A myth shouldn’t be perceived as a fairy tale, an instance of escaping reality, but as densification of value, a counter proposal, with an infinitive pretension. It is precisely due to its deceptive lack of historicity that a myth is laid out concretely as a means of historical analysis…[1]

The cycle of paintings The Black Goddess in Pompeii has for its topic the appearance of the mythical Black Goddess which has been, in different forms, present in various cultures and religions throughout the entire human history.

Going back to the narrative, I tried to deconstruct the process of myth creation and fortify this myth through my own personal fiction. Research on the Black Goddess comprises fiction and facts, with the aim of making relative any general aspects of historical analysis, not prone to reevaluation or alteration. 

[1] Historicity and non-historicity of myth, in:Alberto Busignani, „Marino Marini“,  Naprijed, Zagreb i Državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana,  year: 1971, page 6.













































понедељак, 19. јун 2017.

Apostasy




Apostasy (video artwork, duration: 6min)

Video artwork APOSTASY is questioning the act of reading the historiographical fact in a specific context, renouncing the different types of identities.

Entombing of the female doll, burning the shoes and in the end the ritual of the purification with ashes is just a symbolic procedure, customs which are taking out their own meaning from the specific context, whereas the hint of this context is given at the beginning of my artwork (and yet not transparent), the work itself imparts the indication of a story, but still everything remains at the level of this indication. In that sense, this work largely insists on historiographical metafiction. In this case this work refers to a particular historical event, which reshaped the history of Europe, in religious-spiritual sense in the Middle Age. Of course, I will not identify the event, because it is only the paradigm of historical processes and their interpretations through historiography.











Excommunication – ALCHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CROSS

https://vimeo.com/225391524


Excommunication – ALCHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CROSS

Multimedia installation ALCHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CROSS, tries to examine, map and problematize the reading of the layering of one of the most widespread symbols in the history of the civilization.

The focus is placed on the historical-hermetical aspect of the cross, which in this case means that the cross is not being observed as a space-religious, but as a time-archetypical artifact, which is in its own manifestation reading off and generating all of the symbolic meanings in the continuum of the history of the longue durée  (Term used in the historiographical school Annales, whose foremost representative is Fernand Braudel).

This artwork is grounding its manifestation on the formal level through unique reading of the archetype, and at the same time, it is inaugurating its narrative identity through the partial meanings.


The emphasis is laid on the complex process of transmutation between different symbolic values that are incorporated into the structure of the cross, and the interspace which opens for different readings of this work.