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After You – Posle Vas

2021
SRB

CO-DIRECTING • Videoinstallation

KÜNSTLERIN • Ivana Ivkovic

Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade •  Serbien

AFTER YOU by Ivana Ivković presents a continuation of the artist’s multimedia research started several years ago with the works Lines, Rows, Columns (56th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum), Babylon the Great (Eugster II Gallery Belgrade), Amuse me (Contemporary Gallery Subotica), I Only Want To Love Me (Hošek Contemporary, Berlin), I DID IT FOR YOU (EICON gallery Museums Quartier, MQ 21, Vienna), IN HIM WE TRUST (Bitef Theater), which were conceptually and thematically developed around the different contexts and narratives of the spaces in which were displayed. Another important problematic framework concerns the issues of identity and gender experiences, the re-examination and deconstruction of gender role stereotypes, which Ivković emphasizes in her works by introducing the naked or half naked male body as a performative instrument or medium of specific sensitivity and sensuality.

Realized in the form of site-specific interventions featuring some sort of tableau vivant situations and arrangements involving a larger number of participants/performers, for Ivković, the mentioned works have always dealt with the issues of the viewers’ experiences, i.e., their emotional and psychological perception of the ambiances and events. After first designing the stage/setting through a careful selection of visual and spatial elements that meaningfully and symbolically situate and contextualize the place of exhibition, the artist puts her work with the performers, characterized by minimal and improvised choreographic interventions, at the center of the installation’s significant communicative potential — the vitality of the scene, allowing the audience to connect with it more directly and provocatively.