In the constant search for spaces that belong to her, she becomes obsessed with the feeling of not belonging. Emptiness becomes warm and only acceptable. Convinced that she walks through consciousness unwaveringly, she imposes on herself properties that are not part of her. In the house, dominated by cold and mold, in the middle of an endlessly silent night, he suddenly opens the door. The scene she saw becomes her only story.
Whiteness burdened her for a long time: walking through imaginary snow and not feeling that it is impermanent, observing it as black crystals and a source of heat. The shimmer of light material binds her truth to fear. Still, it feels like a shelter there. He starts to care only about the color blue.
She was born in a city she never left and remembers every house she stayed in. Circumstances and surroundings were always on her side, and for a long time she believed that her voice could kill. Still, he feels guilty and guilty. She lives in a close-knit family of four and was brought up to dream in a controlled manner.
The exhibition explores social and spatial dimensions, which deconstruct and examine the relationships between identity, spatiality and the ideas that represent them. Spatial work of a site-specific character creates monumental figural representations on the walls inside the exhibition space. Oversized figures dominate the interior space, building a visual and textual composition, creating possible/imaginary circumstances and visual representations through their own issues. I am trying to create a visual representation with a dose of imaginary vision in a realistically represented space.
When the process of "scratching" begins, the layers in the space in which we exist are more visible - separate, ordinary people, with their personal stories and situations, which create the whole picture of society. The intention is to move memories within the space itself and encourage reflection of subjective thinking, applicable in social contexts. The connection between space and memories, changing positions and circumstances offer the possibility of showing different perspectives, overlapping general and imaginary interpretations and fact.In my artistic practice, I deal with topics related to identity, gender, body, space and time. Individual exhibitions are grouped around specific themes and concepts using different media, materials and languages. The subject of my research are personal and universal questions: man and his appearance, body and corporeal, transience and belonging, the phenomenon of one's own experience and vision of the world and the world within oneself. I use space as a medium through which I express my personal poetics based on ordinary objects of use and imagined situations through the concept of belonging and transience.
Site specific works focus on the visual mapping and determination of spaces that are in some way connected with the woman and her presence, as well as on the possibilities of relocating and overlapping memories in one and the same space.
The house of her ancestors. She remembers: the small windows, the smell of soot, the attic, the rubber doll, the tapestry on the wall and the dirty floor. She was born in a place where, once she left, she never returned. She is convinced that she has found her own space and will never leave it. In the middle of the endlessly silent night, she notices the meaninglessness of what she was expecting. He lives in a family of four and brings them up to dream out loud.
Our stories define the places we share. And words can change the image we see.
The exhibition will last until December 29, 2018.
Working hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Address: Dvorski Trg 1, Cetinje, Montenegro
Milijana Istijanovic was born in 1982 in Sombor. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro, at the sculpture department in the class of prof. Pavla Pejovic. She organized seven solo exhibitions. Her work has been shown at international festivals and projects. She is the winner of the annual prize for sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, as well as the first prize at the Hercegnov Winter Art Salon. She is a participant in several residential stays.
