TIRANA, May 14 – Montenegrin artists Milena Jovicevic and Zeljko Reljic are being featured in Tirana in a joint exhibition at the Zeta art gallery in Tirana with a special photo and video show conceived as a journey in the night, along the roads of Montenegro.
“207899,121577: Those numbers appeared on the dashboard of the artists Milena Jovicevic and Zeljko Reljic. Without knowing where these numbers come from, we could see there a password or look for an encrypted meaning, but this is merely the distance that the vehicle of the artists has covered until now,” curators say.
Zeljko’s photographs show details of road markings, displayed so they create lines and transversal spaces, which also play with the geometrical forms of his modified traffic signs. The road markings’ details become abstract forms, far away from their original function. These photographs are part of a group of works that depicts a disorganized urban life, showing a sadly comic aspect, also presented in two of Milena’s videos: in the first one, shot from a car, horses are taking control of the roads, and in the second one, a car struggles, its wheel blocked in a hole in the road.
Milena presents a video entitled Love Story in the National Park: A love story between a bottle and a plastic bag. This love story is born in the magnificent landscapes of the Zeta River and ends in the Shkodra Lake, which shares borders with both Albania and Montenegro. In this piece, as the Zeta and Moraca rivers join and flow together in a graceful blend of colors and movements, and as one can follow the floating journey of the two waste-protagonists, the poetry of this budding love turns into the sad finding of pollution in those magnificent natural sites.
The exhibition at the Zeta gallery in Tirana will be open until May 19.
