Project Solidarity '63 (X Biennial of Young Artists - Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje)
Project Solidarity '63 is a site-specific installation piece directly inspired by the catastrophic earthquake of Skopje in 1963.
Approaching this event from historical vantage point, the work is attempting at representation of a hypothetical situation wherein the Museum of Contemporary Art is one among the buildings that were afflicted by the said earthquake. Cracks in the walls and the broken picture on the floor are a mock up of the imaginary setting wherein part of the Museum and of its collection are destroyed. The broken picture on the floor is actually a photograph taken from the well known quotation from Tito that was posted on the ruined wall of the old railway station in Skopje (today the Museum of the City of Skopje), and it refers to a broken and un-restored solidarity. This project, which is conceived for a specific museum space, does not shun the fact that the very project of MoCA is an embodiment of the very same un-restored solidarity.
Project Solidarity '63 is a commentary on the institutional policies of the official art establishments of Macedonia and on the condition of the MoCA building which is alarming enough to make us worry about its predicament, especially since the building is in a larger part still out of function. The project also stands for a yet another possible scenario which should be a reminder to us that the examples of solidarity are short-lived and temporary while the attention they receive is minimal.
Installation (variable dimensions); drawing on wall, framed broken photo and nail
Project Solidarity '63 is a site-specific installation piece directly inspired by the catastrophic earthquake of Skopje in 1963.
Approaching this event from historical vantage point, the work is attempting at representation of a hypothetical situation wherein the Museum of Contemporary Art is one among the buildings that were afflicted by the said earthquake. Cracks in the walls and the broken picture on the floor are a mock up of the imaginary setting wherein part of the Museum and of its collection are destroyed. The broken picture on the floor is actually a photograph taken from the well known quotation from Tito that was posted on the ruined wall of the old railway station in Skopje (today the Museum of the City of Skopje), and it refers to a broken and un-restored solidarity. This project, which is conceived for a specific museum space, does not shun the fact that the very project of MoCA is an embodiment of the very same un-restored solidarity.
Project Solidarity '63 is a commentary on the institutional policies of the official art establishments of Macedonia and on the condition of the MoCA building which is alarming enough to make us worry about its predicament, especially since the building is in a larger part still out of function. The project also stands for a yet another possible scenario which should be a reminder to us that the examples of solidarity are short-lived and temporary while the attention they receive is minimal.
Installation (variable dimensions); drawing on wall, framed broken photo and nail
