2024
Way Out (Venice) 01-12, 2024
Oil-based colour pencil on inkjet print on Epson archival photo paper
I have an ongoing preoccupation with leaving – in different works I explore the dynamics between mobility and stuckness, leaving and staying, presence and absence. These themes are for me related to the question of inhabitation as well as how we form relation to the built environment – cities and architecture, which at ones give structure to our movement and ‘being there’ and at the same time can restrict and define these processes. This series uses photographs of Venice canals I have taken on my daily walks during my 8-month residency in Venice in 2024, during the course of my project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. I cover the structures that outline the canals by coloring over them by hand – an act of erasure or obliteration of the built space – leaving uncovered only the passageway. The works explore the idea of escape (from cities, from structures more broadly, as well from the image and limits of representation) while also playfully engaging the mythology of Venice as a place of lostness and discovery.
