monuments and souvenirs
installation
2018





Installation view of the exhibition Proizvodna Greška/Product failure, Atelje Dado, Cetinje


sound by
Amir Xhakoviq

hosted by 
Atelje Dado, Cetinje, Montenegro

Produced
within the MONET Exchange Programme for Artists, Cetinje, Montenegro
The installation stems from a residency project in Montenegro that turns into an exhibition entitled Proizvodna Greška/Product failure that alludes to the insecure position of art and artists in today’s society, and an increasing tendency to label art as an industrial process, looking at it as a commercial decoration and an auxilliary supplement of touristic attraction. On the other hand, its decisive role as the leverage of society’s development is being reduced and
neglected.

The video installation examines different layers of the reality of the city (in this case, Cetinje), the ambiguity of presentation as such, its visible and invisible aspects, pushing into the foreground the images, which we as presenters as well as spectators usually remove from
the focus.

Ana Ivanović and Natalija Vujošević