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О материји, уметности и капитализму у Салону МСУБ
У Салону Музеја савремене уметности отворена је изложба „Попис – материја, уметност, капитализам” Ирене Лагатор Пејовић и Јелене Мицић. Кустос поставке која траје до 23. фебруара је Мирослав Карић.
TL;DR
- The exhibition "Inventory – Matter, Art, Capitalism" features works by Irena Lagator Pejović and Jelena Mićić.
- Curated by Miroslav Karić, the exhibition explores the artists' engagements with anthropogenic influences on landscapes.
- The artists examine the social and political implications of matter and materials in daily life, public spaces, and private spheres.
- They critique the contemporary global systemic crisis and biodiversity loss, seeing capitalism as reducing matter to raw material and profit.
- Art's role is presented as revealing hidden violence, exploitation, and losses associated with materials.
- The exhibition advocates for integrating aesthetics with ethics and responsibility, emphasizing interconnected lives and ecologies threatened by capitalism's extractive logic.
- It calls for critically examining systems endangering collective survival and imagining alternatives based on care, plurality, and relational knowledge.
- The exhibition functions as a counter-archive and critical mapping of everyday infrastructure, analyzing market circulation of selected products between Serbia, the EU, and the USA.
- The artists note the selective permeability of borders, where material and resource movement is less regulated than human movement.
- They highlight how multinational corporations and economic unions profit by placing products in 'unregulated' neo-colonized spaces outside their state sovereignty.