Never Not In Love (2019)
PrivatePrint Studio. Skopje, North Macedonia
On November 16, 2018 during the one-day exhibition by Darko Aleksovski in the gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, he exhibited seven letters* created on a typewriter. These unaddressed and never sent intimate letters, filled with emotions and confessions, were placed on seven chairs and were meant to be read one by one, moving from chair to chair. This dynamic process that took place within the action of moving from one chair to another complemented the time and emotional dynamics of the content of the letters. Thе performative aspect of reading and the scenography were the features that defined the exhibiting character of these letters. Hence the idea to place these letters in another space with different dynamics and scenography**. The Never Not in Love exhibition presents a new exhibition context in which these seven letters are meant to be read.
Never not in Love is an interdisciplinary and participatory art project composed of two series of works: Love Letters to Loneliness and Waves.
* Love letters to Loneliness originate from intimate confessions in a letter form, without a possibility of them being chronologically located, and are offered to the audience to be read with the opportunity given to the reader to enter into a personal world with emotional issues and situations difficult to translate into words. The series is composed of seven works created on a typewriter (brand UNIS tbm). These are unaddressed and never sent letters, but directed to specific people. The original content of the texts has been written and corrected at various times in the last two years, in the form of a diary and notes, and typed on a machine in 2018.
** Waves is a site-specific installation, composed of multiplication of one photo. The photograph is printed in enough copies to cover the entire exhibition space around the letters, in a way that creates the environment that contextualizes the reading of the letters. The photo, representing sea with waves, is taken in the period when the letters were written and is printed on pink sheets of paper in order that the two entities merge through their visuality and content.
The project was realized on the basis of mutual trust and continuity of the cooperation between Darko Aleksovski and Private Print. PrivatePrint also interviewed the artist in addition to the exhibition opening.
Photo: Zoran Shekerov & PrivatePrint
PrivatePrint Studio. Skopje, North Macedonia
On November 16, 2018 during the one-day exhibition by Darko Aleksovski in the gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, he exhibited seven letters* created on a typewriter. These unaddressed and never sent intimate letters, filled with emotions and confessions, were placed on seven chairs and were meant to be read one by one, moving from chair to chair. This dynamic process that took place within the action of moving from one chair to another complemented the time and emotional dynamics of the content of the letters. Thе performative aspect of reading and the scenography were the features that defined the exhibiting character of these letters. Hence the idea to place these letters in another space with different dynamics and scenography**. The Never Not in Love exhibition presents a new exhibition context in which these seven letters are meant to be read.
Never not in Love is an interdisciplinary and participatory art project composed of two series of works: Love Letters to Loneliness and Waves.
* Love letters to Loneliness originate from intimate confessions in a letter form, without a possibility of them being chronologically located, and are offered to the audience to be read with the opportunity given to the reader to enter into a personal world with emotional issues and situations difficult to translate into words. The series is composed of seven works created on a typewriter (brand UNIS tbm). These are unaddressed and never sent letters, but directed to specific people. The original content of the texts has been written and corrected at various times in the last two years, in the form of a diary and notes, and typed on a machine in 2018.
** Waves is a site-specific installation, composed of multiplication of one photo. The photograph is printed in enough copies to cover the entire exhibition space around the letters, in a way that creates the environment that contextualizes the reading of the letters. The photo, representing sea with waves, is taken in the period when the letters were written and is printed on pink sheets of paper in order that the two entities merge through their visuality and content.
The project was realized on the basis of mutual trust and continuity of the cooperation between Darko Aleksovski and Private Print. PrivatePrint also interviewed the artist in addition to the exhibition opening.
Photo: Zoran Shekerov & PrivatePrint
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