The exhibition "Third Coast" by a Montenegrin artist Ana Aleksic will be opened today in Belgrade in the U10 Art Space, at 19 p.m. where it will be available for visitors until November 20.
Speaking about the setting, Aleksić quoted in the text Danila Kiša: "Days (were) only spaces between journeys, journeys only landscapes between dreams"...
"Hometown, neighborhood, street, home have become stretchable concepts into which several different spaces can be drawn. On the other hand, the outer space has constantly accumulated objects, materials, waste. Natural and urban areas in an endless transformation into a dystopian landscape, in a too slow and persistent melting into some possible future. What is home, if not in the house? If it's been in boxes unpacked for 15 years, if it always has yet to happen, if it's not space - what is it? Where is it? In the absence of walls, the first images, sounds, and light become the backbone of the refuge," Aleksić wrote down her thoughts.
Starting from personal memories on the one hand, and theses Gaston Bašlar that "a house is a collection of images that give a person the foundations or illusions of stability that provides refuge for daydreaming, protects the dreamer, allows us to dream peacefully", the "Third Shore" exhibition examines the areas of memory versus the external, and impression and perception as a boundary line where the two of the world they meet.
"It is a documentation of an attempt to rethink, create and/or erase links and boundaries between daydreams, dreams, memories, perceptions, assumptions, the future, reality and imagination," says Aleksić.
She adds that the exhibition also deals with the issues of the correlation of space and its visuals and sounds and the possibility of interpretation and reproduction of the image in different media.
"All the works are echoes of each other, reflecting and expanding at the same time. The spatial installation is built step by step, taking the previous move as the starting point of the next one. Control and its absence is the principle that defines the process - the final form of the work is determined by coincidences and mistakes that happen along the way. By juxtaposing opposite phenomena, placing them in seemingly separate rooms, I try to summarize them in one space, fluid, liminal and ambiguous. Areas flow into each other, interior to exterior, window to wall, wall to landscape; the sounds swim through the gallery, the spark becomes a line on the paper. The times of the day change: daylight prevents the clear observation of certain places, darkness the observation of others. The third coast, the third place from memory, is transformed into an intimate house", the author points out.
Ana Aleksić previously confirmed in an interview for "Vijesti" that migration, as well as personal experience, are some of the central motives of her creativity.
"As a starting point, I use the experience of growing up and living between: safe places that become dangerous, unknown places that become safe, unfinished buildings awaiting construction, completed buildings awaiting demolition, drastically changed natural and urban landscapes, changes in toponyms and changes in territory," she said. was previously Aleksic.
Ana Aleksić was born in 1992 in Montenegro, where she completed specialist painting studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. She completed her master's studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. During her studies, she stayed at the Ecole Superieure d'Art de Lorraine (Mec, France, 2016), and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2020/21) as a scholarship holder of the French Government. Since 2014, he has been actively participating in exhibitions and residencies in Montenegro and abroad. She was the representative of Montenegro at the First Mediterranean Biennale in Izmir (2024). She is the winner of the BAG Award at the Osten Drawing Biennale for 2022 and a finalist for the Milčik Award for 2021 and 2023.
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