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The installation consists of columns with license plates, 25
different numbers, in fact, registrations of cars, which have
previously endangered her security. Installed differently in the two
rooms of the gallery they represent the traffic order and traffic
jam, in the same time blocking our free movement throughout the
place. There is a book with license plates numbers opened in the
gallery. The enormous devotion by which these numbers are gathered
has a therapeutic effect, having no opportunity to react at higher
authoritative instances. The collected material is the main reason
for posting this exhibition. The whole installation in space has a
minimalist attitude, thus expressing the general cold acceptance of
the consequences and the reconciliation with the whole situation
that always looks hopeless.
What is most appealing, however, is the intimate interest for
activism through the art form. The sole work is a product of apathy
and calls for awareness, action and reaction about this aspect from
the urban living. It opens the question for being aware and the need
for social action. Even a small step is more than nothing!
This exhibition does not pretend to solve the problems, but, in a
modest fashion, to stress it, to build up an awareness of it's
existence, of our ignorance towards everything that is happening to
is.
Elena Veljanovska
Ivana Dragsic's biography
Ivana Dragsic about herself
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