Work Swept Under the Carpet!

Swept Under the Carpet!

Installation: textile, 4 documentary photographs, 2016.

Artistic practice between private and public: What can we do together for ourselves?

“Being a female artist with a migration background comes along with specific challenges – that require persistence and resistance in order to be able to continue. Out of the need to express these difficulties and to create a platform to share them, I invited four colleagues, who find themselves confronted with similar situations.

How can we be strong enough to always carry on?

And how can we create a platform to support each other?

With each of them, I went for a picnic and used this paradox situation – intimate and at the same time public, enjoyable while tackling our most serious personal issues – to discuss these questions. The visible result of these meetings are a carpet – an artifact of collaboration, relating to traditional crafts associated with the female domestic realm – and questions, both inscribing themselves into the discourse of our existence.”

Eva Meran, Bojana Stamenkovic

Participants artists: Isidora Krstić, Mirjana Djotunović alias MUSTRA, Neda Nikolić, Ivana Smiljanić.
Sentences and words written under the carpet:
Solidarity- What defines me?- You must be twice as good and you must work twice as much!-Profession, can art be a profession?- What’s going wrong if I can/t live from my profession?-Do you organize life according to visas?- Are we the others?-visibility- respect-Yes, nationalism bothers me!-flexibility, practical cooperation- It’s a privilege to be an artist, it’s a privilege to do what you love!-responsibility-self-organization.