Nets, Nodes, Horizons
2020
interactive wall installation, hand-made colored yarn balls, nets, nodes
105x620 cm
Exhibition/Venue: Night in Montenegro and Other Stories, Art gallery “Miodrag Dado Đurić“, 13. November salon, National Museum, Cetinje, Montenegro Curated by Petar Ćuković.
Photo of the installation: Lazar Pejović
The work Nets, Nodes, Horizons is an arrangement of a multitude of hand-made coloured yarn balls. One of their thread ends is attached to the nets hanging on the wall, while the other is free and intended for visitors’ interaction.
By extracting the individual coloured threads towards the depth of the exhibition space, the visitors participate in the process of unwinding the ball, establishing a direct-physical connection with the work and material, modifying it and making visible its background – the net. The participation of the audience in creating and shaping the visibility of the idea of coloristic and inclusive horizon activates the thought about both, about the broader and the narrower context in which the work is being created: today’s global environmental, social and political unrest, but also the social and cultural context of everyday life. What is exhibited here is our common labor. It becomes a lived-through experience and a document of testimony that our development and action on the planet depend on our collective and shared responsibility.
The work also initiates thinking about collaborative forms of creation, pointing to us the potential of recognizing the complexities of the present moment, in the hope that precisely this act of making visible how things are can trigger the strategies of togetherness, collectivity and solidarity during ongoing health, economic, natural and political crises.
2020
interactive wall installation, hand-made colored yarn balls, nets, nodes
105x620 cm
Exhibition/Venue: Night in Montenegro and Other Stories, Art gallery “Miodrag Dado Đurić“, 13. November salon, National Museum, Cetinje, Montenegro Curated by Petar Ćuković.
Photo of the installation: Lazar Pejović
The work Nets, Nodes, Horizons is an arrangement of a multitude of hand-made coloured yarn balls. One of their thread ends is attached to the nets hanging on the wall, while the other is free and intended for visitors’ interaction.
By extracting the individual coloured threads towards the depth of the exhibition space, the visitors participate in the process of unwinding the ball, establishing a direct-physical connection with the work and material, modifying it and making visible its background – the net. The participation of the audience in creating and shaping the visibility of the idea of coloristic and inclusive horizon activates the thought about both, about the broader and the narrower context in which the work is being created: today’s global environmental, social and political unrest, but also the social and cultural context of everyday life. What is exhibited here is our common labor. It becomes a lived-through experience and a document of testimony that our development and action on the planet depend on our collective and shared responsibility.
The work also initiates thinking about collaborative forms of creation, pointing to us the potential of recognizing the complexities of the present moment, in the hope that precisely this act of making visible how things are can trigger the strategies of togetherness, collectivity and solidarity during ongoing health, economic, natural and political crises.