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Horseman

Biljana Đurđević

HESTIA, Belgrade

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Title
Horseman
Gallery
HESTIA, Belgrade
Year
2022
Duration
4 min 30 s
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Animation, 4K, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound

HORSEMAN: part of ” Case Study” series presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. First elaborated as painting and later as video animation, it has an extraordinary essayistic transmedia approach to the subject. The cinematic quality emphasised by industrial landscape sets a specific dramatic tone in the appearances of leading actors, depersonalised exponents of exploitation systems, in the act of surveillance, control, and potential punishment of disobedient subordinates. At the height of global social and economic changes, exploitation practices have become omnipresent, nuanced only in terms of the resources being used and whether they are implemented in the interest of wealthy individuals, corporations, or “life-saving” privatisations of ruined socially-owned property. For Djurdjevic this represents a starting point for a case study on human, social, and ethical degradation that aren’t part of some dystopian vision of the future but a reflection of the world in which we live today.

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Biljana Đurđević

Artist
biljanadjurdjevic.com

1973, Belgrad

Biljana Đurđević

Biljana Đurđević’s artistic practice, spanning two and a half decades, continuously evolves around researching the conceptual potentials of the medium of classical painting, while in recent years, her creative interests have expanded to include work in the domain of stop-motion animation. The authentic visual poetics is the result of her dedicated study of classical paintings and the works of great masters, but also socio-historical and cultural circumstances from early renaissance and baroque to the modern period and vanguard movements. This has enabled the artist to tap into a treasure trove of visual, narrative, conceptual sources and references, which she shapes into symbolic representations-statements, mutually thematically and problematically related primarily in that they focus on the complexity of human nature, or rather, the character of psychological relationships we establish, individually or collectively, with different social-value models and systems in the world around us.