Proximities, rehearsals and archive (working title) - Katarina Zdjelar

Zdjelar’s works bring forward ideas around (female) solidarity, resistance, the importance of art in the face of political oppression, labour struggles and internationalism. Expanding from her ongoing work Not A Pillar Not A Pile (Tanz für Dore Hoyer) premiered at Prix de Rome exhibition, Zdjelar’s current research focuses more concretely on female friendship and solidarity and its methodological as well as aesthetically charged formalizations and material possibilities. Zdjelar is interested in a kaleidoscopic approach to female relationality as a state of moving one another in passion, purpose and politics. Her research includes historical elements into these models and experiments as well as contemporary potentials. Zdjelar draws inspiration from visual art practices and examples (drawing a productive genealogy) , but also literature (Ferante, Lispector, Bruni, Raymond, Ahmet...). These serve as a tool to unlock and define the potential of female friendship as a politically affective state of being and not only the intimacy of a personal relationship.

Year

2021