О материји, уметности и капитализму у Салону МСУБ

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.

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