SK - 320 - IB
February 2006
Exhibited in Cultural Center Tocka, Skopje
Curator: Elena Veljanovska
Artist: Ivana Dragsic
The installation consists of columns with license plates, 25 different numbers, in fact, registrations of cars, which have previously endangered her security. Installed differently in the two rooms of the gallery they represent the traffic order and traffic jam, in the same time blocking our free movement throughout the place. There is a book with license plates numbers opened in the gallery. The enormous devotion by which these numbers are gathered has a therapeutic effect, having no opportunity to react at higher authoritative instances. The collected material is the main reason for posting this exhibition. The whole installation in space has a minimalist attitude, thus expressing the general cold acceptance of the consequences and the reconciliation with the whole situation that always looks hopeless.
What is most appealing, however, is the intimate interest for activism through the art form. The sole work is a product of apathy and calls for awareness, action and reaction about this aspect from the urban living. It opens the question for being aware and the need for social action. Even a small step is more than nothing!
This exhibition does not pretend to solve the problems, but, in a modest fashion, to stress it, to build up an awareness of it's existence, of our ignorance towards everything that is happening to is.
Artist: Ivana Dragsic
The installation consists of columns with license plates, 25 different numbers, in fact, registrations of cars, which have previously endangered her security. Installed differently in the two rooms of the gallery they represent the traffic order and traffic jam, in the same time blocking our free movement throughout the place. There is a book with license plates numbers opened in the gallery. The enormous devotion by which these numbers are gathered has a therapeutic effect, having no opportunity to react at higher authoritative instances. The collected material is the main reason for posting this exhibition. The whole installation in space has a minimalist attitude, thus expressing the general cold acceptance of the consequences and the reconciliation with the whole situation that always looks hopeless.
What is most appealing, however, is the intimate interest for activism through the art form. The sole work is a product of apathy and calls for awareness, action and reaction about this aspect from the urban living. It opens the question for being aware and the need for social action. Even a small step is more than nothing!
This exhibition does not pretend to solve the problems, but, in a modest fashion, to stress it, to build up an awareness of it's existence, of our ignorance towards everything that is happening to is.