SKCNS Fabrika, Bul. Despota Stefana 5, Novi Sad
November 29–30, 2024
Artists: Tijana Jevrić and László Gálos
Vernissage: Friday, November 29, 19:00–21:00
Accompanying Program: Saturday, November 30, 11:00–13:00
Concept Authors: Tijana Jevrić and Miloš Fath
AI Consultant: Miloš Fath
The Position of Identity in Contemporary Reality is a multimedia and interdisciplinary exhibition with an accompanying program that, by combining analog photography, performance, artificial intelligence, video projection, and hologram, initiates a discourse on the position of identity in contemporary reality – from cultural mythologies on social media to the human body, its sensations, and beliefs in relation to them. The project aims to present the culmination of the human relationship to one’s own identity and ways of manipulating identity through social norms, latent desires, and collected digital information (digital footprint), which further enhance alienation from everything that makes us individuals. Stories, which are a key part of human experience and are today used as a weapon against individual truth, by subversion become a channel for communicating the message of this artistic project.
The exhibition invites a reconsideration of the position of comfort and submission to prevailing cultural patterns and technological prostheses, unapologetically opening the field of possible freedom, and at the same time fascinates with media diversity. As Foucault would say, the boundaries of freedom are often formed through structures that promise security, but it is precisely in that space that traces of resistance and autonomy can be glimpsed. (Ksenija Marinković)
As part of the accompanying program, a conversation will be held with the artists Tijana Jevrić, Miloš Fath, and László Gálos, along with a panel on the manipulation of identity in the digital sphere. The panel discussion will be moderated by Vladan Joler, founder of the SHARE Foundation, visual artist, researcher, and professor at the Department of New Media, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and Živa Stanojević, assistant professor in the Department of Audiovisual Media on the Animation and Visual Effects study program at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
Through the accompanying program, the exhibition space at Fabrika will, through the lens of historical context, philosophy, and practice, bring the audience closer to the human relationship with technology, the tools of identity manipulation, and the unconscious patterns that are largely present in our society.
Tijana Jevrić is a multimedia artist working with site-specific and audiovisual installations, as well as holographic projections. She graduated in New Media Arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where she received a scholarship and an award for the best work in new media art (2020). Her works have been exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, the Cultural Center of Serbia in Paris, and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. She focuses on the influence of media culture on society and virtual space.
László Gálos is a visual artist and performer who explores the relationship between subjective and objective reality, as well as the limits of perception and knowledge. Since 2015, he has been using wet plate collodion in his photography. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. In his performances, he investigates the interaction between the physical and virtual worlds. He is a recipient of the Creative Scholarship from the Hungarian National Cultural Fund and awards at the Nude Photography Biennale, and is a member of several artistic associations.
Miloš Fath is an audiovisual and performance artist from Novi Sad with a multidisciplinary approach that combines visual art, sound, technology, cultural studies, and mysticism. His work focuses on storytelling and critical exploration, emphasizing the exchange of information and energy. He draws inspiration from cultural mythology, history, and identity. He holds a degree in Digital Media from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and has realized numerous projects and exhibitions. The multimedia exhibition was created by the organization BelArt Kontakt under the patronage of the City of Novi Sad (UNESCO Creative Cities).