The exhibition "Stories from Quarantine", curatorial project of the art historian and curator of the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, Milice Bezmarević, will be opened tomorrow in Podgorica, in the "Centar" gallery, at 19 p.m.
Six Montenegrin artists are participating in the exhibition: Zdravko Delibašić Beli, Tadija Janičić, Teodora Nikčević, Ivana Radovanović, Siniša Radulović i Jovana Vujanović, and will be opened by curator Bezmarević.
The installation, Bezmarević explains, was conceived as a kind of collected impressions or memories from the era of quarantine, personal or pandemic, and artistic reflections.
"What constitutes the reason for this exhibition and its idea is reflection on quarantine as a position, but not exclusively in the context of the current pandemic, but also in the way each individual lives their own daily quarantines - different situations of not belonging, rejection, social and social isolation and conscious of self-isolation. Disturbing feelings of stagnation, anxious anticipation of some change, the increasingly obvious disintegration of the usual everyday life, are just some of the general impressions of the time spent in quarantine," the curator wrote in the accompanying catalog.
Certainly, she pointed out, the term "quarantine" in its original meaning determines a situation of temporary isolation in the case of an infectious disease, while in a broader sense the term was adopted as an expression of exclusion, alienation, inability to communicate with others. And yet, it is impossible to completely separate it from the situation caused by the corona virus.
"The historical experience of the global corona virus pandemic, which we are still living, confronted us with the most diverse impressions of social, economic, emotional, psychological and various other changes that, most likely, will remain forever remembered as a kind of permanent collective trauma of the 21st century. On the other hand on the other hand, the personal memory of each individual moves in the widest possible field of all kinds of impressions, where that experience is not necessarily perceived as something bad or traumatic, but on the contrary, as an often favorable predisposition to question oneself, one's own potentials and possibilities. 'we are going through an unprecedented social transformation' /Žižek/ which can be analyzed and interpreted from multiple angles," wrote Bezmarević.
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