Wherever I Go I Take My Clutter With Me

This exhibition, including drawings and site-specific installation, was transported in a suitcase from Serbia to the U.S.A. I travelled with all this clutter of disposable waste all the way from my home country to the exhibition venue, where I assembled all the bits and pieces into a site-specific installation. By converting piles of discarded items into a conceptual space of landscape I contemplate the possibility of transporting the fragments of the world and its wonders in a suitcase as they are personal belongings. We live in a society where we can order and rent everything we want for luxury purposes. One day we might be able to transport and rent natural wonders, land formations, create foldable buildings and rearrange them as they are lego blocks. So why don’t we start with foldable art pieces which can reduce shipping costs and carbon footprint?

The work embraces a dualistic image of the world. The first one shows the world as a construction site - a field of action with a potential for change, growth, and development. The other one captures the world as a landfill site - a space of almost baroque decay, where everything that is superficial and discarded intermingles and coexists in a cataclysmic relationship. The accumulated clutter leads to new structures imbued with contradictions that reveal incredible fragility of man’s physical and conceptual inventions.