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| 2002. | Si je pouvais dire seulement une fois je te suivrai jusqu’au bout du monde | Falling into Circularity, a text by Natasa Ilic, 2001. | |||||||
| if only I can once say I’ll follow you until the end of the world | |||||||||
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The source of light is blue neon lighting with an elegant lettering. Neon sign : Si je pouvais dire seulement une fois je te suivrai jusqu’au bout du monde was shown in two personal exhibitions, Did she fall or was she pushed? (2001) and Wonderland (2002). |
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| exhibition view : Did she fall or was she pushed? , photograph by Boris Cvjetanovic | |||||||||
The neon sentence expresses desire. The blue light fills and articulates the space by giving it a soft, tactile quality. It fills the space with a sense of hope and disappointment. Writing with light, almost pronouncing is preventing something to happen : if only I can once say I’ll follow you until the end of the world, It's ambiguous and speaks about one’s faith, or losing one’s faith - the impossibility of decision. It combines two aspects, the intimate woman-man aspect (faith in a relationship - Did she fall...) and “political” one - the faith in a system / society (ideology - Wonderland). ... Impossibility of enjoyment and articulation of desire, whose paradox lies in the cleft between desiring and wanting, locates feminist references into the realm of transformation into “post-political” regime that neutralizes and absorbs every specific demand into a lifestyle. And that is something generational, something that addresses specific public whose cooperation it evokes and shapes, and in whose reception it has been realized. * |
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| installation view of Wonderland, Photo : JB Ganne | |||||||||
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| * N. Ilic, Falling into Circularity, in cat. Did she fall or was she pushed ?, Zagreb, 2001 | |||||||||
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