Aleksandra Domanović. From yu to me

ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIĆ, From yu to me
at Kunsthalle Basel, from 01 April to 27 May, 2012

Untitled (30.11.2010), 2010
3 x 7500 A4 pages, inkjet print, each 75 x 21 x 29.7 cm

19:30 (stacks), 2011
4 x A4 and 2 x A3 pages, inkjet print, various dimensions

Marina Lučica, 2012
9000 A4 pages, inkjet print, 75 x 21 x 29.7 cm

Plitvice, 2012
7500 A4 pages, inkjet print, 75 x 21 x 29.7 cm

Bubanji Fist Relief, 2012
mdf, tadelakt
160 x 55 x 20 cm

Prilep Nymph, 2012
styrofoam, tadelakt
290 x 190 x 190 cm

Portrait (messing), 2012
inkjet print, framed
200 x 145 cm

all images © WFW

portrait (Kilim), 2012
inkjet print, 137 x 190 cm
courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

The first solo exhibition in Switzerland of ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIĆ opened a few days ago at the Kunsthalle in Basel. The artist’s works questions the complex ways how the digital culture has fundamentally changed our landscape of information and our notion of public space, mostly in her native country, the former Yugoslavia.

The exhibition shows a series of new sculptures (pieces coated with Tadelakt, a finishing material typical of the North African country) as well as further developed versions of previous works like her paper-stacks (2009 and ongoing). Her video works aren’t outdone: Turbo Sculpture (2012) is projected onto a monumental screen occupying one of the main spaces of the ground floor.

All these works are closely connected with her own experience and the history of her native Yugoslavia whether she is investigating the phenomenon of what she has dubbed Turbo Sculpture, constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre- and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into the rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, DOMANOVIĆ addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history.

➝ ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIĆ, From yu to me, at Kunsthalle Basel, from 01 April to 27 May, 2012



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