Individual Utopias consists of a number of elements including two videos, drawings, terracotta reliefs, an artist book containing the script of the audio drama and a live performance
TIRANA, May 5 – Bosnian artist Lala Rascic will open on Friday, May 7 an exhibition at the Zeta art gallery in Tirana.
Her “Individual Utopias” exhibition is based on a true event that took place in the centres for mental health in Mostar during autumn 2007. Invited to participate in a workshop organised by the Italian organisation Connecting Cultures and SCCA, Sarajevo, artist Lala Rascic immediately realized the dramatic potential of the events she was witnessing and decided then to write a script for an audio drama where one of the main characters will be a ceramic kiln.
The exhibition is an art document that combines real and fabricated facts and absurd and tragic-comical aspects of the everyday life in today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina. This work talks about the presence of the international community in this country, characteristics of one divided city (city of Mostar) and limited power of art. Trough the title “Individual Utopias” the artist portrays unfulfilled expectations that are concerning her but also all of the protagonists and creators of the event that served her to tell this story.
Individual Utopias consists of a number of elements including two videos, drawings, terracotta reliefs, an artist book containing the script of the audio drama and a live performance. Each of these elements is thread that feeds into one narrative. Until now, the exhibition displayed in different combinations of these elements or as a performance conducted repeatedly many times in: 10m2, Sarajevo; Individualne Utopije, B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb; Mesto Zensk, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana; SPA Port, Banja Luka; Art on Stage, Studio Live, Istanbul; Salon Revolucije, HDLU, Zagreb; Art Point Gallery, Beč; Gledati druge, Art pavilion in Zagreb.
Lala Rascic is an artist born in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1977. She lives and works both in Zagreb and Sarajevo and has been exhibiting since 1998. In her work, she uses variety of art formats: painting, sculpture, video installations. Since 2005, she has been dealing with the sound and scriptwriting, which she herself performs in her video works.
Exhibition “Individual Utopias”, performance and workshop “Imagination School” with artist Lala Rascic, is part of long term project Individual Utopias Now And Then – Discontinuity of generation dialogue or what do we have in common?, which is realised in cooperation with SCCA/pro.ba from Bosnia and Herzegovina T.I.C.A. from Albania and New Media Center from Novi Sad.
The project “Individual Utopias Now and Then” has been supported by Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans.
The exhibition will be open every day from until May 21, said Zeta gallery.
