Mislim na toplinu koju tka reč: Minja Jovičin

MISLIM NA TOPLINU KOJU TKA REČ
Autorka izložbe: Minja Jovičin

Aleksandra Trninić, Ana Popović, Anđela Kopanja, Jana Stojanović, Marija Dilparić, Marija Janićijević, Nina Puhar, Teodora Nešković, Ognjen Milošević, Damjan Jovičin

Mislim na toplinu koju tka reč je grupna izložba koja okupljajući likovne, muzičke i literarne radove u jedno mesto, ispituje ulogu reči tokom čitavog procesa stvaranja umetničkog dela. U prostoru se nalaze citati iz svetske književnosti i filozofije ravnopravni sa rukopisima učesnika izložbe i likovnim delima. Pored toga, muzika se izlaže kao likovno delo, u vidu ručno rađenih partitura. Reč se takođe izlaže i kao zvuk.

Izložba počinje citatom: Mislim na toplinu koju tka reč je stih preuzet iz poeme Približni čovek Tristana Care, a citati se koriste i kao idejna i prostorna struktura. Na taj način se otvara pitanje granica intimnog i javnog prostora pisalačke i čitalačke prakse u životu savremenog čoveka koji reči nalazi svuda oko sebe. Da li je to smrt autora¹ gde se reči pretpostavlja nadmoć budući da se ona (za razliku od autora) preoblikuje u različite forme u različitim vremenskim kategorijama? U svakom slučaju, tekst se uvek nanovo rađa sa čitaocem, a unutar ove izložbe, tekst se koristi kao ideja koja nadilazi mikropsihu i pretpostavlja jednu vrstu skromnosti stvaraoca. 

Minja Jovičin
istoričarka umetnosti i književnica
 

¹ Aluzija na istoimeni tekst Rolana Barta.
 

I THINK OF THE WARMTH SPUN BY THE WORD
Exhibition author: Minja Jovičin

Aleksandra Trninić, Ana Popović, Anđela Kopanja, Jana Stojanović, Marija Dilparić, Marija Janićijević, Nina Puhar, Teodora Nešković, Ognjen Milošević, Damjan Jovičin

I think of the warmth spun by the word is a group exhibition that brings together visual, musical, and literary works in a single space, examining the role of the word throughout the entire process of creating an artwork. The exhibition space features quotations from world literature and philosophy, presented on equal footing with the participants’ handwritten texts and visual works. In addition, music is exhibited as a visual artwork, in the form of hand-drawn musical scores. The word is also presented as a sound.

The exhibition opens with a quotation: I think of the warmth spun by the word, a verse taken from the poem Approximate Man by Tristan Tzara. Quotations are further used as both a conceptual and spatial structure of the exhibition. In this way, the exhibition raises the question of the boundaries between intimate and public space within practices of writing and reading in the life of the contemporary individual, who encounters words everywhere around them. Does this point to the death of the author¹, in which words are granted supremacy, since they—unlike the author—are continually reshaped into different forms across different temporal categories? In any case, a text is always reborn through the reader, and within this exhibition, text functions as an idea that transcends micro-psychology and presupposes a certain humility on the part of the creator.

Minja Jovičin
art historian and writer
 

¹ An allusion to Roland Barthes’ text of the same name.