Cordial Points
Mittwoch, 07. März 2018 - 19:00 Uhr
Galerie Schleifmühlgasse 12-14
Selma Selman * Bojana Stamenkovic
The plots between four different Cordial Points are mapped and the different medias have been checked with regard to their usability. There are four different approaches as well, though all of the art pieces created by Cristina Calderoni, Vera Klimentyeva, Selma Selman and Bojana Stamenkovic are dealing with deconstruction and new interpretation of traditional values. While Cristina Calderoni presents a sound file she has produced during her stay in a Residency on a lonesome island in Brasil, Vera Klimentyeva shows her new silk print edition, in which she is dealing with emblems and insignias. Selma Selman plays with the female role and Bojana Stamenkovic tells about changing even the sex for the impact on family welfare. They used medias are sound, silk print, video and installation/embroidery.
http://12-14.org/2018-CordialPoints/
Cristina Calderoni
Young italian artists from Faenza, is mostly site specific working. She used to live nomadic,but for projects she settles down for a period of one month to explore the new city and the artists scene. To go where a possibility of exhibiting exists is a kind of artistic procedure of Calderoni.
Vera Klimenteyva
Visual artist focused on topics of identity, over identification, religion, social role models, deconstruction and transformation. In her artworks she seeks explanations and answers to various questions in regard of nowadays situation of different contents, which often deal with spiritual aspects, gender roles, such concepts as home, cultural heritage, unconditional love, stereotypical national features and symbolism.
Working in fields of fine arts and graphic design, using techniques of printmaking, painting, photography and digital collage.
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Selma Selman
Selman´s struggle with the statelessness, multi-generational trauma and survival. Land and body becomes sites of emancipation and persecution for Selman, wich the artist explores in video-works, paintings and performance work. Selma Selmane complicates the notions of what it means to maintain self-sovereignty as a foreigner in her land of origin and he current home. Ultimately, her search for political resistance situates this confrontation within the gendered and radicalized presumptions about citizenship, belonging and identify.
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Bojana Stamenkovic
Visual artist, cultural worker, and activist in the field of women's rights and cultural awakening in underdeveloped areas. After an extensive experience in the NGO sector of the Serbian culture scene, she is currently studying and working in the management team for the post-graduate master program ecm - educating/curating/managing at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With her colleague Jelena Fu?inato she founded the artistic group Rouge in 2011, in which they examine the issues of gender, the status of women, identity, and the field of labor migration.