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Identification as Reappropriation
Luiza Margan surprises, confuses, provokes smiles and has clearly defined intentions behind her approach, one of them being the reappropriation of the past in a subtly humorous way.
Read moreIdentification as Alarm
The performance pieces of the Moldovan Tatiana Fiodorova act as a metaphor for the transition of the USSR and its people to the new European realities and standards.
Read moreIdentification as Spectacle
Jasmina Cibic works with signals, words, and forms that represent a very particular way to do politics in order to deconstruct the spectacle of identification as political processes.
Read moreIdentification as Exorcism
Šejla Kamerić’s best-known piece is without doubt Bosnian Girl (2003), an eye-catching poster showing her portrait bearing an inscription which repeats a graffiti photographed in a former UN base located near Srebrenica.
Read moreIdentification as Craft
Like many of us who come from or live in this southeastern region of Europe, Katarina Šević is a displaced woman, and like for many of us, for her identification is a pivotal question to be taken care of.
Read moreOn Identification as Field Exercise
This series of articles is concerned with layers of identification in Central-Eastern Europe. I introduce this theme by analysing "Identification", an action that Katalin Ladik realized in 1972 in Vienna.
Read moreTowards Central-Eastern Europe
Our new Art Spy contributor is Róna Kopeczky. As a Serbian citizen with Hungarian roots and educated in France, Rona has a deep and natural interest in the historical, political and cultural dichotomy within Europe.
Read moreAmbushed on a Dusty Plain
Angélica Araya has come up with an approach to photography that does more than just propose an artistic action. She demonstrates clear rigour in her work, without denying the contextual dilemmas.
Read moreRippling Through Time: The Mirages of Tarapacá
The Tarapacá desert, a terrain pinned down by the sun and the wind, forms part of the artist Michelle Marie Letelier’s research. Her work focuses on the economic and political value of minerals in parts of Latin America.
Read moreTracing a Hidden Border
Chilean artist Catalina González has set about investigating the traces left behind by the military trials. Paradoxically, these trials mirror the pre-Columbian vestiges found in the Tarapaca desert.
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