In 2006, I marked twenty years of independent artistic practice with an exhibition dedicated to the transformations of my works and the spaces in which they were presented. The focus of the project was not on the works themselves, but on the relationship between the work, place, time, and the context of their creation and existence.
Most of my works were created using ephemeral, non-permanent materials, with the intention of conveying a message and generating a therapeutic effect within a specific space and time – on visitors, the space itself, and collaborators involved in the projects. Over the years, both the spaces and the works have changed: some locations have been completely transformed, some works have disappeared, altered their function or form, while others have become part of everyday life and other structures.
For this project, I collected and processed extensive documentation and revisited the locations, photographing them and comparing their “before and after” states. The exhibition was realized as a documentary-artistic whole at Gallery VN, where I held my first solo exhibition in 1986, symbolically closing the circle between the beginnings and the present moment of my work. Visitors were invited to bring an object or share an experience reflecting their encounter with the artist’s work over the past twenty years. she held her first solo exhibition, symbolically closing the circle between the beginnings and the present moment of my work.
The project does not present the original works, but rather the documentation of transformations of spaces, people, and situations in which they were created. In this way, documentation ceases to be merely a record and becomes an autonomous artistic expression.
