2023
2022
The exhibited installation is the beginning of a series of experimental works that develop the ground idea of bricks (adobe*) as the potential for a house, relying on the author’s personal dream about a mud-house/home. It correlates a brick and a quasi-architectural digital design of the floor plan of an imaginary, non-existent house. The blueprint is revealed during the brick drying process, emphasizing their interdependence. By drying, the material takes on its final form and becomes usable, thus concretizing the blueprint, the scheme of a house or the idea of a house. The nature of the material is a condition for the development of the plan. In addition, the very process of making a brick includes a scheme, which enables its efficient reproduction. By multiplying adobe, dreams about the spatial plan of a house-home are also multiplied. In this particular case – one brick provides space for one floor plan.
*Adobe – a sun-dried brick made from earth, sand and straw
Photo by Vladimir Janić
2021
The so-called eco-pilgrimage was an event that happened in May of 2021 by members of Diskusije: Mila Stojanović, Una Mladenović and Jovana Tašin. The goal was to walk from Belgrade to Baćevac, the site where the Mikser festival¹ was being held, whose theme for the year was New Values. As a part of the festival program were worksops dealing with sustainable design, using trash found on site. The idea for our walk was collecting rubbish found along our path and delivering it to the participants of the workshop to, on the one hand, show support for the project even though we weren’t directly involved (it was a closed program for selected participants), and on the other to experience and show what we are sorrounded with daily but maybe fail to see. Many problems arose, since there were a lot of wild dumps along the way that made it impossile for us to collect it all and carry by foot to our destination. The solution was to collect souvenirs, selected pieces of trash based on our personal preferences, and keep them as documents of our journey. The whole process was live streamed through the FindPenguin app where our location was tracked and shared along with photo documentations. Giving importance to such a place, which represents a certain movement in the art scene and culture of Serbia towards a sustainable future, was of great value for us. The act of a pilgrimage in support of ecologically oriented and sustainable practices reflects on contemporary issues concerning our environment.
From reality to a dream was a project done for the Inclusive Gallery in Novi Sad, whose focus is on people with disabilities. With that in mind, the starting point of the work was the idea that dreams are a universal thing for all people. Trying to grasp the process of transition from reality to a dream, that specific feeling, how I percieve it and what it means to me, I developed a digital interactive audio-visual picture, representing four stages through four different segments. Each segment has its own ambient, visual and auditive. Hovering over the elements activates the sound. The high contrast colors chosen, the simplicity of shapes, the interactiveness, make the work accesable to people with different kinds of disabilities.
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