No more…2024, installation in public space, dimensions variable, 60eme biennale – The October Salon, Belgrade…
Damir Radovic No more... This is maybe... Bolje.... Ko..., 2024, installation in public space, dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist, Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne and Kashagan Galerie, Lyon The work of Damir Radovic operates like a slogan, which at first glance takes the form of an elegy that unfolds in urban space, based on repetition. This repetition, and the choice of words that follow, often seems absurd, funny and sometimes uncomfortable. By occupying the public space and addressing each and every one, the work itself seems to function as a silent protest, without really asking us to take action. It could be more like a memo, helping us to keep our perceptions of current issues intact and our minds awake. Within the exhibition Aesthetic(s) of Encounters), his work uncoils itself like a personal poem, a sort of "infernal cascade": Damir Radovic starts with Tito and how when the money disappeared, the country disappeared along with it, and when the country disappeared, the nation disappeared along with the dream, while He disappeared as an individual Himself and became a refugee. This succession of sentences that are a priori independent of each other implies that, on the contrary, everything is linked, both in the public space and within our awareness of events. The artist proposes a collective experience that the display in the public space provokes, and that is then difficult to ignore. By normally occupying public spaces like those reserved for advertising displays, Damir Radovié also raises the question of addressings. Who speaks to whom? Who speaks for whom? Who can speak? Who is authorized to express themselves, and this, in public? Damir Radovic (1976) is a French-Bosnian artist born in Sarajevo based in Paris.Damir Radovic
No more… This is maybe… Bolje…. Ko…, 2024, installation in public space, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist, Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne and Kashagan Galerie, Lyon
The work of Damir Radovic operates like a slogan, which at first glance takes the form of an elegy that unfolds in urban space, based on repetition.
This repetition, and the choice of words that follow, often seems absurd, funny and sometimes uncomfortable. By occupying the public space and addressing each and every one, the work itself seems to function as a silent protest, without really asking us to take action. It could be more like a memo, helping us to keep our perceptions of current issues intact and our minds awake.
Within the exhibition Aesthetic(s) of Encounters), his work uncoils itself like a personal poem, a sort of « infernal cascade »: Damir Radovic starts with Tito and how when the money disappeared, the country disappeared along with it, and when the country disappeared, the nation disappeared along with the dream, while He disappeared as an individual Himself and became a refugee.
This succession of sentences that are a priori independent of each other implies that, on the contrary, everything is linked, both in the public space and within our awareness of events. The artist proposes a collective experience that the display in the public space provokes, and that is then difficult to ignore.
By normally occupying public spaces like those reserved for advertising displays, Damir Radovié also raises the question of addressings. Who speaks to whom? Who speaks for whom? Who can speak? Who is authorized to express themselves, and this, in public?
Damir Radovic (1976) is a French-Bosnian artist born in Sarajevo based in Paris.