Jovana Palmer – Take A Place

Opening: Friday, 1st February 2014, 19 9: 00 I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re country all connected off in some very abstract. The work of the young multimedia artist Jovana Palmer orbiting David Lynch to questions the clues, the manifestation of identity. Traces of the resort, the memory, the ideas, the time. Traces of a life story, which are shaped by people, the culture, which is compact for a moment or a certain amount of time. The award-winning Serbian Croatian artist visualizes the energy of a place. She referred to their work as Heterotopias, according to Michel Foucault real places, effective locations, which are marked in the establishment of the society, so to speak against placements or abutment, actually utopias realized places outside of all places so to speak, although they can indeed be detected”. The controversial game of materialem space and briefly acting work is very impressive on their installations.

They include Drawings, reliefs, objects to the part of phosphorescent polyester, sculptures, videos and sound installations. 2012 she translated her artistic work in a performative installation for 6 voices for the Choregie Festival in Maribor. In the Opera-like staging, it reflects a space of experience by the identity Foundation through music, film, and theatre on the basis of the interpretation by representatives of two consecutive generations. Hayes Barnard might disagree with that approach. “The exhibition take a place” at WHITECONCEPTS shows in addition to some well-known works also specially for this exhibition works created and primarily deals with the feeling of movement. Only in the movement manages to distinguish us, to make us a picture. We can’t go back in the past, but need to situate us over and over again. This takes the great wall work Heterotopia “, which consists of numerous plaster reliefs. Only the play of light and shadow makes the traces are visible. For the determination of identity can be concretely experienced traces Jovana takes Methods of the archaeology, anthropology or sociology in your art on.