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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  
       
   
     
   

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).

       
     
    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. *

 
       
     
    installation view of Wonderland, Photo : JB Ganne  
       
   

 

    * N. Ilic, Falling into Circularity, in cat. Did she fall  or was she pushed ?, Zagreb, 2001