[spectre] Macedonian pavilion

[director at eaf.asn.au]

media release
May 2003


MACEDONIAN PAVILION
San Marco 2774
Campo Santo Stefano

to present

"INTEGRALISM" by Zaneta Vangeli        "PASSAGE" by Vana Urosevik
curator Zlatko Teodosievski				  curator Emil Aleksiev






"INTEGRALISM", detail, 2002/2003,
Installation made of:  3 objects: wood, acrylic, gold, 3 relief maps 
of Macedonia, each 82x105x73cm; object:  wood, plotter print, gold, 
glass, 240x120x73cm;  2 vitrinas each 300x265x25cm; ready-made 
destroyed weapons;  "Realkunst, or Essential Harvest", video, endless 
tape, video recorder, monitor; 2 glass objects, each 100x200x0,8cm, 
steel)






Integralists of all Nations, Unite!

This paraphrase of Lenin's rallying cry from the early twentieth 
century and the October Revolution can appropriately be used for 
events taking place a century later. Workers and proletarians united 
then; integralists and globalists are uniting today! Marx's capital 
marches on in new clothes!
_aneta Vangeli's interest in global events and their wide-ranging 
impact dates back several years. In 2001 she started developing more 
fully these interests through a project entitled Integralism, 
consisting of a series of works. Prepared for the Venice Biennale, 
the project is preoccupied with what is perhaps the most rigid and 
extreme form of the shady mechanisms of integration processes: 
militarization. Vangeli ironically takes for granted - as an 
international super-process - the operationalized equation 
militarization = integration = globalization, as she does its 
"products" which involve/affect all dimensions of existence.
To be more specific, Vangeli's triptych Integralism aims to discover 
the relationships governing collective and individual integration (or 
pseudo-integration), "minor" and "major" wars and their ambivalent 
meanings, the by-products of these processes as a ready-made show and 
the inevitable changes at the level of personal identity.

Zlatko Teodosievski




Passage: Six female characters help Casanova in his escape from the 
prison, 2003, detail; Installation made of: 6 silk garments, 6 
photos, ready-made furniture, texts, sound, curtains)



Vana Urosevik makes her works of the sticky matter of the dreams. 
Night, moon, silver, black masks, lace, red silk, heavy drapes, old 
furniture and mirrors, are the stuff of which she makes a home for 
the specters. You can meet them here, but they are not very sociable 
and it is really difficult to invoke them from the darkness where 
they lurk in concealment. That's why Vana Urosevik uses the thin 
cobweb threads of imagination to weave a magic fabric and to make 
clothes like traps for the specters. The clothes invoke them (the 
clothes look for the body that is gone) and they crawl in it like 
into an empty snake skin. Lemurs (larvae), chimeras and harpies now 
settle the house. With her legs spread the Ancient slut Lilith lies 
on the table, she who strangles the sleeping ones and attacks the 
lost. The sorceress Melusina, who flied from the high tower of her 
castle like a flying snake, releasing sad shrieks, now comes out of 
the closet. The Prophetess seats on the armchair, while many eyes 
look at you from under her dress. The Virgin of the crystal lake, 
with loose hair, now for ever sinks into the coffin filled with 
water, that was unexpectedly placed in the middle of the room. The 
woman-wolf waits for you stretched on the sofa... Someone's shadow on 
the wall shows you the way from one room to the other. You are 
invited to participate in the game of shadows and specters. The 
inscription on one of the heavy red drapes, written in gold, reads: 
Six female characters help Casanova in his escape from the prison 
Piombi. The other drape says: Passage... You can choose your 
character by choosing one of the clothes. You can try to escape 
following the shadow of Casanova. You have at your disposal women's 
socks tied one to another with knots, an awl, squid ink, a 
binocular... Yet, the escape from here is impossible. No matter how 
many drapes have you left behind, when the last one raises, it always 
says, like at the beginning: Welcome to the Magic Theater of Vana 
Urosevic.

Emil Aleksiev






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