Azra Svedružić i Demirel Pašalić
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October 13 – 22, 2015

Opening – October 13 at 7pm

There are no people. Because, there are just no people.

Is  it about  anything other than a map of suffering,  cartography of pain, billboards of horror, numbers of fear? Holly bureaucracy, that’s what it is, reality so vulgar that is sacred. It’s content: indifference. Its form: statistics. Irrelevant is important. Unimportant is urgent. Quantity: endless multiplying. Quality: erosion of responsibility. Holly bureaucracy, more complex than art. There are no people, only finger prints.

And emerging from that pile of paper, cuttings, trimmings, selvages, trash,  glued leftovers of the world which is no longer:  arte facts, hard evidence, anamorphosis, deposits of silence, nothingness and absence. We are pealing that onion in five layers, connecting five dots to draw a human, looking for a beating heart by exposing:

-synonym of art, painting,  hidden to represent  the invisible tissue of living; ruined, unfinished, faulty, empty canvases  wrapped like a package in search for an address;

-from the interspace, the space between languages, between stories, we record tales from the meantime, tales in need of a listener;

-broken, dismantled, worn keyboard elevated to the level of valuable exhibit;

-booking of a road trip out of reality;

-and home. House, Sanctuary, La Casa, Das Haus, HOME!

But people? There are no people. Just  Others.  That’s why in mad race to reach utopian latitude and longitude of desired home, in reaching a mathematically correct illusion which will finally justify  life reduced to  bare survival, that Other, which is a stranger, outcast, stateless, runaway from greed and wars – runs straight into the wall of Fortress Europe. And on the other side of the wall, noble westerner presiding at the cabinet of ideas – he is upset. His precise weaving of narcissistic boredom comes face to face with the invisible ones, unwanted ones,  wretched ones; the pile of “Multicultural leftovers of history”(Žarko Paić) is staring at him. No escapism, although their move is escape. There are no people, just leftovers.

This string, series, this frieze from “poor art” is puzzle of anxiety, there is nothing aesthetic or impressive about it, this work is discomforting because it goes around looking for patience, again and again. History is always repeating itself as a farce. But, without pompous gesture this exposition is whispering:  art may not be able to change the world, but it can alter consciousness, attitude, heart. Are you a beating heart?

And yet, bored nevetheless?

Say, what’s  your excuse for being indifferent?

Azra Svedružić & Demirel Pašalić

About the Authors:

Azra Svedružić (1969) is a visual and multimedia artist from Zagreb where 1996’s she finished her study at the Academy of Fine Arts. She works in multiple art disciplines: experimental film and video, conceptual art, installations, multimedia projects, visual and fine arts. Hers projects so far exhibited in 23 exhibitions and has participated in 23 international film and video festivals in Slovenia, Germany, the UK, USA, Canada, Cyprus, Serbia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Chile. Since 1998 a member of the Croatian Association of Artists.

Demirel Pasalic (1975) is a photographer, cameraman, musician and multimedia artist from Zagreb. He studied at FAMU (Film and televizní fakulta Akademie Muzickych umění) in the Department of cinematographer 3F, in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 1996, as a collaborator, producer and author participated in the creation of dozens of plays, several feature films and experimental films were shown at many international film and video festivals. As a musician and composer he is active as author and performer, and has been since 2003 a member of the Musicians Union. Since 2007 member and ULUPUH.

The exhibition supported by the City Office for Culture, Education and Sports Zagreb.

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