11 -25 SEPTEMBER
Authors: Ana Kuprianov and Aleksandar M. Lukić
The states of fluidity and stability explored in these works represent an outcome of the research of two artists, both on the symbolic and concrete levels. They managed to draw in viewers, intrigue and direct them toward a unique blend of these two elements, two opposites. At the same time, they have succeeded in opening the door toward a new world into which we can, together with them, immerse ourselves.
The didactic aspect of this artistic cooperation carries a much broader message: The stability of modernity and the fluidity of the postmodern are not necessarily separate, opposing processes representing a rift. Overcoming this artificial rift will remain a challenge for future theoreticians and art historians. For some, stability and fluidity may be irreconcilable, whereas others will wisely conclude that one does not exist without the other.
As Plato wrote in Phaedo, opposites cannot coexist – when one arises, the other disappears and vice versa – except in very brief moments of the emergence of one and the disappearance of the other. Ana Kuprianov and Aleksandar M. Lukić have precisely identified those rare moments in which the stable and the fluid converge in extraordinary harmony.
Zoran Kojičić, PhD