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“WE: VOICES” solo exhibition in the Modern Gallery in Podgorica
The exhibition creates a unique ambience from parts of the artist’s previous works with a focus on the importance of taking social responsibility
21.12.2023 — 31.1.2024, Modern Gallery, JU Museums and Galleries of Podgorica, Montenegro / Curators Irena Bekić and Anca Verona Mihuleț / Associate curator of the exhibition Ljiljana Karadžić, Modern Gallery
Visual artist Andreja Kulunčić, whose work represents one of the key oeuvres of socially engaged artistic practice in Croatia, presents herself to the Podgorica and Montenegrin audience with the exhibition “We: Voices”. The exhibition presents works created over the past two decades and can also be viewed as a retrospective review.
In her artistic practice, Andreja Kulunčić detects social injustices and explores the ways in which we can oppose them. Teenage pregnant women in England, Bosnian workers in Slovenia, migrants in Austria, Indonesian workers in Croatia, undocumented workers in Switzerland, dismissed workers of the largest retail chain in Croatia, people with non-normative identities, women, union fighters, political prisoners are just a few. of the many whose invisible, unprivileged lives mark the global world.
With the help of different voices, Kulunčić introduces a change into the usual and one-directional way in which we perceive our surroundings.
The exhibition built around five stations — newspaper narration, a zone of moving images, testimonies of female prisoners, a mental map of the author and a sequential arrangement of posters — brings together people who are pushed to the social margins by consensus in different ways.
Passing through the gallery, the audience become aware of the invisible threads that constitute the collective perspective and voice of socially underprivileged individuals.
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to listen, show solidarity and take a common risk to confront a world in which some are privileged and others are reduced to survival.
In such a constellation, in a collective effort that doesn’t necessarily unfold only within the realm of political power, an active field of action is created. In this process, the individual “I” transforms into a collective “we.”
Realization of the exhibition: Graphic design Srđa Dragović / Technical realization Neđeljko Radević and Vukić Petrović / Printing of the newspaper-catalogue daily “Dan” / Photographs of installations and conversations Filip Roganović and Ivo Martinović / Production Moderna galerija Podgorica, 2023.