2-channel sound installation / 6 Mar – 31 May 2023
Sežana Botanical Gardens
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In the process of conceptualizing Sonic Ontology of Negligence, Manja Ristić resided in places that were heavily exploited and forever changed by the human urge to build, comprising thousand-years-old quarries as well as present-day mega-structures, abandoned as a result of corruption and consumerist socio-political turmoil. The nucleus of the compositional structure is devoted to the abandoned construction building site of the Stožice mega-structure, while layers of mnemopoetic sonic imprints are derived from old lime-stone quarries from the island of Korčula in South Dalmatia, such are Glogovac, Lenga, Defora, and Vrnik, but also abandoned mineral mines and lime pits from Fruška gora in Vojvodina, North Serbia, and other sites such is the military compound placed in the middle of the Avala forest in the suburbs of Belgrade. The poetical accent is given to the dynamics and textures of waters and aquatic micro spaces, which are building the formative/reproductive environments in the process of re-establishing biodiversities.
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