tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220841495106545592024-03-05T10:08:31.892-08:00Alen Ilijić -- 'I am movable Jasenovac'The House of Hidden Knowledgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096247416939799279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222084149510654559.post-39152836684446709572016-04-30T14:29:00.000-07:002017-03-20T02:40:50.689-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The exhibition <b>‘I am movable Jasenovac,’</b> by Alen Ilijić, is based on the theme of the <b>largest concentration camp in </b>the Independent State of Croatia<b>, where Serbs, Jews and Roma were killed during World War II </b>(1941-1945), but it is not conceived to be revisionism of historical events. It is focused on personal research,<b> genetic affiliation</b> (and thus racism), anti-Semitism and discrimination, current and past. <b>Going back to his roots, Jewish, Romany and Serbian</b>, Alen Ilijić Jasenovac perceives <b>not only in a function of the place for collective suffering of his nations, but also symbolically, as a final assembly of the scattered graves of the artist's ancestors.</b> In searching for identity and revealing long-kept family secrets, the exhibition brings the individual and universal truth about the burden caused by divided political beliefs about race. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Elements of the camps, racism and anti-Semitism are also present in the previous Ilijić’s artistic engagements</b>. For example, in the <b>visual segment</b> of the composition <i>'My suspicious look'</i> a <b>refugee number</b> of the artists is shown ('<b>PW503683d</b>'). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>This number coincides with the marking mode of the people in the camp.</b> ‘I am movable Jasenovac’ is a project that summarizes current Ilijić’s experiences, expressed through the art form of subjective witness. </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The commemoration of the Jasenovac’s victims and emphasizing discrimination, specifically Serbs, is in connection with the recent political turmoil in the European Parliament and adoption of the Resolution of Srebrenica.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.36px;">This <b>multimedia exhibition</b> is conceived of drawings, photographs, video-projection and ready-mades, <b>as well as</b> <b>spectral composition which is created for the gallery space</b>. The poetics of Ilijic’s gesture, on the neo-expressionistic drawings, ranges from the thin nervous line to aggressively implemented black surface, which brutally <b>attacks our senses</b>. In addition, the burden of genetic heritage is enhanced by the use of irradiation, whereby <b>the stated artistic messages were brought to the candescence. </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>One of the characteristics of Ilijić’s artworks is the use of symbolism</b> with general and personal meaning. In other words,<b> his symbolic dualism is distinctly his own</b>, but also understandable to everyone. </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px;">Thus, in the video-projection</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfGLs7RVtg" style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #373e4d;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>‘Milica, my Savior’ </b></span></a><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">shows in<b> a metaphorical manner</b> the author’s liberation from inner conflicts caused by racism and anti-Semitism. The ready-made ‘The taste and smell of the number 3’ consists of three objects, which, through the symbolism of unity, describe the taste and smell of the three nations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project ‘I am movable Jasenovac’ <b>reveals all the absurdity of negative stereotypes about the Roma, Jews and Serbs</b>, which dominate in modern society. Going back to the past, to illuminate his own origin, Alen Ilijić has also made a step towards the future: <b>towards equality, justice and dignity</b>. </span><br />
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