CULTURAL HERITAGE AND MODERN CREATION

Independent author and curatorial project

Autoroka: Biljana Jotić

The author’s concept is based on the selection of specific author’s contemporary artistic expressions that are combined with the areas that belong to the heritage of the Republic of Serbia and the atypical character of the space for contemporary art exhibitions. The curatorial concept is based on the concept of continuity – the revitalization of the inherited through a contemporary expression in an atypical exhibition space and the heterogeneity of visual expressions as a testimony to the diversity of the experience of contemporary fluid reality.

Four exhibitions were realized:

1. ART ON PAPER ((linkovati sa http://bibliografije.nb.rs/bibliografija/CIP%202015/CIPNeknjiz_april_2017/zapisi2.html), National Library of Serbia, 05/05/2017 – 05/07/2017. Gathers local authors around paper as a medium, heterogeneous in character, in the form of a chronicle. The author’s concept is visible in the merging of visual and linguistic signs, i.e. the exhibition of author’s works on paper in a space that inherits the word on paper. An additional specificity is also recognized in the character of paper as a medium, a newspaper of the new age and a faster spread of information, which led to the modern form communication.
2. THROUGH WATER (linkovati sa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgJgGew0ncI ),  Eđšeg art station, Novi Sad, 2017. The curatorial concept of Biljana Jotić is based on the fact that the artist Ivana Živić, in her painting, problematizes space and time through imaginary spaces filled with water and swimmers. The site-specific character is formed through a whole consisting of a contemporary exhibition in an atypical space of cultural heritage and an installation that moves the space from the canvas to the real space, and the time of the event is “now and here”, including the observer as an integral part of the event.
3. IDENTIFICATIONS (linkovati sa https://nmuzice.org.rs/izlozba-identifikacije/), Jokanović House, Užice National Museum, 2018. The author’s curatorial concept of the exhibition of two universal artists who express themselves through drawing, Marija Tošković and Marija Milinković, relies on the sentence of Miodrag B. Protić: “Knowledge about the diversity of artistic expressions is the surest and simplest compass on the troubled sea of ​​contemporary art.” Two approaches to the same topic in the technique of drawing on paper, on the one hand, identification through the external projection of the city and geometrized forms of closed forms, and on the other, the internal projection of the contemporary selfie phenomenon, which opposes the traditional way of portraiture and problematizes narcissism and interaction. The setting connects contemporary thematic issues and traditional space.
4. 20/20 (linkovati sa https://www.seecult.org/mladi-umetnici-uvod-u-obnovu-balkana/), author’s collective exhibition in the “Space under reconstruction” of the Balkan cinema, in cooperation with the “Saša Marcheta” foundation and the “NuraArt” agency, 2018. The curatorial concept is sown in the experiment of selection and setting that combines traditional and contemporary, i.e. real and virtual space. 20 artists were selected, 10 of whom problematize space in their work, and they were presented in real space, and the other 10 were presented in virtual space. By combining real and virtual space, the way of interaction between the observer and his senses is also problematized.