[spectre] grey) (area: exhibitions: Bill Aitchison + Sanja Latinović

[Darko Fritz]

grey) (area
space for contemorary and media art
Korčula


Bill Aitchison: China Quick-Fix
Aug 1st - 31st 2024
Wi-Fi gallery grey) (area
Trg sv. Marka, Korčula, 0-24 h
Curators: Darko Fritz, Format C
In collaboration with: Gradski muzej Korčula, Format C
http://sivazona.hr/events/china-quick-fix

China Quick-Fix is principally a photographic archive that documents improvised repairs in China. This phenomena is both ubiquotous and neglected: it is something people do but not something that is dicussed or widely pictured. In this sense it can be understood as an unconscious aethetic that permeates urban space. The images offer an untypical perspective of contemporary China which simltaneously reveal both the everyday problems people encounter and the solutions they find to them. As such, a close reading of the images brings together collective experience and individual creativity in often surprising ways. The archive began in 2014 and has grown in size and depth since then to encompass several exhibitions, videos, publications, texts and workshops.
The exhibition can be accessed through personal mobile devices at Korčula’s St. Mark's Square. 

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Sanja Latinović
Aug 3rd 2024, 21-23 h
Curator: Neva Lukić
In collaboration with: Umjetnička organizacija Maximum
http://sivazona.hr/events/sanja-latinovic <http://sivazona.hr/events/sanja-latinovic>

On this occasion, artist from Belgrade Sanja Latinović presents her works through different approaches – through talk, presentation of works, and a mini-exhibition. The talk and the screening of excerpts from the video works Aquarium (2008), Bird (2014), Movements White (2012), Do Not Cross (2016) and Obstacle or Threshold (2022) will encompass the different phases of artistic activity. The artist is almost always engaged in performance art; however, said medium is free-flowing and nearly always grows into sculpture, video work, or photography. Therefore, these works are subject to comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation. In some of her works – which we can also attribute to her sculptural vocation – the artist creates new (non-)spaces, with emphasis on the relationship between fullness and emptiness and the individual themselves, i.e., herself at the centre. 
Half of My Meal Is an Artwork (2023) will be presented in the space as a video installation. Here, the emphasis is also put on the critique of the art system, together with the presence of self-irony that is also characteristic of Sanja Latinović’s approach. The performance was presented at the 50th Art Colony Assembly on Vlasina. Specifically, over the course of one week, the artist ate only half of the meals provided to her while attending the colony, while the rest of the meals she documented with photographs. Hence, the emphasis here is also put on the relationship between emptiness and fullness – the eaten and uneaten half which becomes an artwork due to the non-existent financial support for its production.

Supported by: Ministarstvo kulture i medija Republika Hrvatska, Ministarstvo kulture Repubika Srbija, Aminess Hotels & Campsites, Zaklada Kultura nova, Dubrovačko-Neretvanska županija, Grad Korčula
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