[spectre] Exhibition "Interzone : Gender" on Wednesday, September 9th

[galerija galzenica]

we are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition

"Interzone : Gender"

on Wednesay, September 9th from 8.p.m. to 10 p.m. in Galzenica Gallery


artists: Davor Dukić (SR), Ibro Hasanović (BiH), Helena Janečić (HR), 
Milica Rakić (SR) i Alenka Spacal (SLO)

curators: Sanja Horvatinčić, Nina Pisk


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"Interzone: Gender" continues this year’s series of exhibitions 
dedicated to the phenomenon of globalization and its effects on the 
local, on politics and, among others, on intimacy. The exhibition will 
try and offer a view into one of the more actual topics today: the 
question of gender and gender relations/roles. Within that context, the 
exhibition will present works from artists from Croatia, Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, Slovenia and Serbia.

By the performance of hanging self-portraits on kitchen cloths in the 
gallery, the artist from Slovenia, Alenka Spacal, imitates the intimate 
household atmosphere, and at the same time deals with the problem of the 
relation between private and public, i.e. personal and political. She 
also deals with the relation between the self-portrait as a classical 
painting genre and performance as its extension within the contemporary 
feminist art practice.

The self-portrait of the Croatian artist Helena Janečić refers to the 
work of the modernist painter Nasta Rojc and also deals with the 
question of presentation of gender identities within the local context.
The work of Milica Rakić “Krasna zvezda” uses historical documentation 
and photographs to explore the idea of existence, transience and time, 
and also the ways in which language and culture shape identities.
The problem of gender differences and its cultural determination is the 
basis of the video by Ibro Hasanović titled “Attempt of Being”. By 
reading the work by the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 
“L’ingénu Libertine”, the author is questioning ideas of sexual identity 
and woman writing.

In his work “Man of Action”, Davor Dukić humorously addressed the 
problems and symbols of pop-culture and its meanings within the local 
tradition and the male gender identity.

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