Gallery of Contemporary Art Pančevo
Opening: 2 December 2024, at 7 p.m.
Artists: Igor Bošnjak (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Anica Vučetić, diSTRUKTURA, Aleksandar Lazar and Manja Ristić, Nemanja Nikolić, Marija Ćalić (Serbia), Michael Coldwell (Great Britain).
Artists Selector and Curator: Nina Todorović, PhD in Arts
Program organizer and Gallery Director: Ivana Markez Filipović
The FRAGMENTATION: LAYERING OF TIME AND SPACE exhibition aims to bring together artists around the issue of transformations related to memory and the immediate environment, what memory is today, and how we position ourselves concerning memory in social contexts and within the framework of urban settings. The relationships between concepts, such as analogue-digital, presence-absence, true-false, history-present, and establishment-denial of the system are indispensable... The concept of time nowadays has a special meaning, because no matter what we do, we have less and less time available. By speeding up, we gain productivity, but we lose the segment of thinking and thorough analysis of the situations from multiple perspectives. The measure of understanding reality becomes/remains a combination of zeros and ones. The phenomena resulting from all this can be complicated and confusing.
Glitch, as a software error, gains visibility through art and thus becomes not only a new aesthetic field but also a conceptual category. Glitch can be viewed and understood more broadly; it spreads its influence in different narratives, re-examines the past, redefines the present, and pervades static and moving images. In other words: did something happen, how did it happen, how is it recorded and is it recorded/remembered at all?
Thanks to databases and the influence of artificial intelligence in everyday life, there is growing attention to how certain data is read and understood. This is why fractures, anomalies, deviations, and fragmentations become significant because, through different artistic practices, we arrive at the visualization and context of the eternally dominant question of where we are and what we are in our environment. Are we establishing a new dynamic structure and potentially new social values? Do we need to understand the software or is it the vision that drives us to explore further and shape the world as it is or as it should be? These are all questions that we want to point out or explain through the FRAGMENTATION project and recent artistic productions across various artistic media.