AA 001

AA 001

November 1 – 10, 2013

Opening reception November 2nd from 6 to 9 pm, 2013

Curated by Bojana Janeva

AA OO1 stands for the first exhibition of Ars acta artists, Igor Sekovski, Boris Semov and Radmila Oncevska, all three part of Ars acta Institute for arts and culture in Skopje, Macedonia. The authors utilize the medium of digital photography in order to explore different aspects of contemporary identity and society from personal perspective.

Boris Shemov in his work Sharing extensions has delved into the world of overabundance of visual excerpts taken from the world of virtual reality. In his computer-generated images, a multitude of personal stories intertwine, both his own and those of his Internet friends, with fragments of unidentified objects and details from every-day life that generate a feeling of infiniteness.

Igor Sekovski “identifies himself with the animals, owl, dog, depending on the particular animal characteristics we are “endowed “within the times we live in, as analogy of the human spiritual and social condition or our faintness and biomorph y”. (A. Frangovska, Life Action / Game Action, 2011-2012, Skopje. National Gallery of Macedonia)

The starting point in his audio-visual work Shitana is a view from a possible owl’s perspective, accompanied with the sound of an owl, referring to the intimate common feeling of loneliness, alienation, quietness, and drifting of the early morning hours.      “His other work I wanna be your Dog reflects on the disintegrated spirit and poltroonery of the modern man. Dictated by the conditions in the society, humans are transformed into loyal dogs that obey orders. The loss of human integrity is one of the strongest tendencies in our contemporary world.” (A. Frangovska, Transitional Authoritarity, White Nights 2013, Skopje, Chifte Hamam)

In her latest work Enter Radmila Onceska is exploring the semantic meaning of doors, seen as portals to another dimension, making those common objects the gateway to our inner hidden world, and referring to the common need of protecting it. The aesthetic role of South Korean doors is emphasizing the alternation of perception, “what we see and what we seem are but a dream” (“Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Peter Weir, 1975); and there are doors in-between…

The exhibition was sponsored by the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Macedonia.