[Oberlist] FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY, REP/ PATRIOTISM, Gallery PM, Zagreb

[natasa bodrozic]

FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY
segment II
R.E.P.: PATRIOTISM/ Horizon
Gallery of Expanded Media
Pavillion Mestrovic
Zagreb, Croatia

Revolutionary Experimental Space (R.E.P.) is the artist collective
from Kiev, Ukraine. It was created in the end of 2004 during the
Orange Revolution.

Patriotism is one of the R.E.P.'s projects; as a project and the
process at the same time, it develops the idea of a universal
language- Esperanto. Artists use a range of graphic symbols that refer
to particular words and concepts in order to create visual tales in
the form of murals. In Patriotism local issues become the topic of
universal communication. The project aims to eliminate problems
connected with translation. The project's utopian objective entails
the possibility of discussing differences in one common language.
Apart from the murals the artists always offer the viewer also a
dictionary of symbols and meanings.

Through the "Patriotism" series, R.E.P. collective attempts to empty
the term patriotism from its xenophobic and nationalistic connotations
so that the concept becomes pure rhetorical form, which is then filled
with the new internationalist content. This creates the universal
"form of Esperanto," which highlights the union of diversity.
Patriotism by R.E.P. is based on the tradition of monumental
agitation, but without the hypnotic effect. The viewer needs to take
some time to "read" and reconstruct the meaning of the message.

The exhibition stays open till November 22.
Curators: Loose Associations (Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Meštrov)

This exhibition is part of the program Loose Associations: Lines of
Movement focused on research of critical and experimental art
practices of the former Eastern bloc.

http://www.hdlu.hr/eng/2009/11/future-was-yesterday-rep/


-- 
nataša bodrožić
slobodne veze/loose associations
vinogradska 34
10 000 zagreb
croatia

tel: + 385 91 763 2983
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