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The author's site-specific installation presents collages created from obscured real-life posters of Brno shop windows, which are transported to a new imaginary situation in the passage between Šilingr Square and OC Velký Špalíček. Here, the enlarged motifs are elevated to abstract figures creating a backdrop and the main view for passing visitors. Alongside them, two objects form the central part of the installation, drawing attention to themselves thanks to the transparencies in the poles. Against the backdrop of a personal story, the video contextualises and thematises individual motifs from Brno's abandoned and emptied locations - so-called non-places, which, according to French anthropologist Marc Augé, we cannot identify with or feel sympathy for. It is these that the author focuses on, creating a positive relationship with them and finding their specific aesthetics, which she further develops. The final idiom heard in the video brings our attention to the icing on the cake - a literal phrase materialized in a cake installation by a food stylist specializing in cake creation and design, Jarmila Červena. It will be in the showcase in a gradual decomposition until the end of the exhibition on May 7, 2024.
"The exhibition focuses on the documentation and appropriation of "street grime" and visual smog in its physical decomposition phase. It explores the spontaneously emerging aesthetics of decaying materials and their second life, set within a narrative of the concept of visual cleanliness." adds the artist.
Gallery 45 000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture launched its exhibition activities at the Brno Art Week festival two years ago and will celebrate its successful entry into its third edition at this year's festival on Sunday 28 April from 2-5pm. Accompanying the exhibition Dirt is a Social Construct will be a Liminal Banquet, where visitors will have the opportunity to decorate, take away and eat their piece of visual smog. The event is a collaboration with food stylist Jarmila Cervena and will take place in the gallery's passageway and adjacent public spaces. All are welcome with no age limit, if you would like to secure a space and your portion to decorate, please let us know at galerie45000l@vutbr.cz. Attendance and refreshments are free.
Barbora Ilič (*1993) is an artist, curator and PhD student at FaVU BUT whose work explores the power of romanticization and issues of reparative tendencies in art and in wider social contexts. References to B-cinema and pop culture in the form of low theory often appear in her works. She currently works as part of the curatorial collective Cejla and the art collective UglyBrno.45,000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture is a volume extending beyond the walls of the institution into the public space of a passageway in the centre of Brno. The gallery aims to confront (itself) with the everyday reality and problems of contemporary architecture with its interdisciplinary overlaps. The exhibition program searches for current social issues, puts them in the context of the city and the place, which is also related to the question of how to exhibit and communicate them to the passing visitors through the format of a shop window.
Dirt is a Social Construct - Barbora Ilič12 March - 7 May 2024The opening took place on 12 March. Pavel Holomek @pa.Eva Truncová Curator/production: Volume for engaged architecture 49.1927300N 16.6063847EMon-Sun 00.00-00.00
The rotting cake in the shop window refers to the street filth of the urban environment
Author, artist and curator Barbora Ilič thematizes the aesthetics of urban patina and visual smog on the example of the city of Brno through the exhibition Dirt is a Social Construct. This year's first exhibition at the 45 000 l gallery is one of three selected exhibition projects from the international Open Call, which took place last autumn under the auspices of the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology. The 45 000 l gallery will celebrate its second birthday with a liminal reception with the artist Jarmila Červená during Brno Art Week on 28 April 2024 from 2 to 5 pm.The author's site-specific installation presents collages created from obscured real-life posters of Brno shop windows, which are transported to a new imaginary situation in the passage between Šilingr Square and OC Velký Špalíček. Here, the enlarged motifs are elevated to abstract figures creating a backdrop and the main view for passing visitors. Alongside them, two objects form the central part of the installation, drawing attention to themselves thanks to the transparencies in the poles. Against the backdrop of a personal story, the video contextualises and thematises individual motifs from Brno's abandoned and emptied locations - so-called non-places, which, according to French anthropologist Marc Augé, we cannot identify with or feel sympathy for. It is these that the author focuses on, creating a positive relationship with them and finding their specific aesthetics, which she further develops. The final idiom heard in the video brings our attention to the icing on the cake - a literal phrase materialized in a cake installation by a food stylist specializing in cake creation and design, Jarmila Červena. It will be in the showcase in a gradual decomposition until the end of the exhibition on May 7, 2024.
"The exhibition focuses on the documentation and appropriation of "street grime" and visual smog in its physical decomposition phase. It explores the spontaneously emerging aesthetics of decaying materials and their second life, set within a narrative of the concept of visual cleanliness." adds the artist.
Gallery 45 000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture launched its exhibition activities at the Brno Art Week festival two years ago and will celebrate its successful entry into its third edition at this year's festival on Sunday 28 April from 2-5pm. Accompanying the exhibition Dirt is a Social Construct will be a Liminal Banquet, where visitors will have the opportunity to decorate, take away and eat their piece of visual smog. The event is a collaboration with food stylist Jarmila Cervena and will take place in the gallery's passageway and adjacent public spaces. All are welcome with no age limit, if you would like to secure a space and your portion to decorate, please let us know at galerie45000l@vutbr.cz. Attendance and refreshments are free.
Barbora Ilič (*1993) is an artist, curator and PhD student at FaVU BUT whose work explores the power of romanticization and issues of reparative tendencies in art and in wider social contexts. References to B-cinema and pop culture in the form of low theory often appear in her works. She currently works as part of the curatorial collective Cejla and the art collective UglyBrno.45,000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture is a volume extending beyond the walls of the institution into the public space of a passageway in the centre of Brno. The gallery aims to confront (itself) with the everyday reality and problems of contemporary architecture with its interdisciplinary overlaps. The exhibition program searches for current social issues, puts them in the context of the city and the place, which is also related to the question of how to exhibit and communicate them to the passing visitors through the format of a shop window.
Dirt is a Social Construct - Barbora Ilič12 March - 7 May 2024The opening took place on 12 March. Pavel Holomek @pa.Eva Truncová Curator/production: Volume for engaged architecture 49.1927300N 16.6063847EMon-Sun 00.00-00.00
Photo documentation of the opening
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