MERSEYSIDE AND BREXIT
22. februar – 9. april
otvaranje u 18h
Šok Koridor, ulica Zmaj Jovina, pasaž br. 22
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Uvod
Žaljenje, patriotizam, neizvesnost, ponos i strah…
Serija fotografija „Merzisajd i Bregzit“ berlinske fotografkinje Sandre Ratkovic posvećena je preokretima u Engleskoj koji idu ruku pod ruku sa glasanjem o Bregzitu.
Sandra Ratkovic je nekoliko puta putovala u Englesku nakon glasanja o Bregzitu i fotografisala ljude i scene u Merzisajdu, u severnoj Engleskoj.
Osnovno pitanje serije fotografija je:
Možete li da pogodite ko je glasao za Bregzit, a ko nije?
Sandra Ratkovic je pitala ljude u Merzisajdu da li može spontano da ih fotografiše na ulici. Nakon toga ih je pitala o njihovom glasanju i njihovom mišljenju o Bregzitu.
Portreti se poigravaju sa očekivanjima gledaoca, tražeći od gledaoca da sam odluči da li je prikazana osoba možda glasala za Bregzit – ili ne.
Namera fotografkinje je da gledalac fotografija bude suočen, kroz ovaj proces, da ispita – i preispita – svoje internalizovane procene i pretpostavke.
Još jedno važno pitanje koje se Sandra Ratkovic nada da će ispitati svojim fotografijama je:
Kakva je situacija ljudi u Engleskoj nakon glasanja o Bregzitu i kakve su implikacije u vezi sa vizuelnim promenama u svakodnevnom životu i urbanim scenarijima, kao što je porast patriotskih simbola.
Naročito u poređenju sa tradicionalnom slikom i estetikom Velike Britanije.
engl:
Introduction
Regret, patriotism, uncertainty, pride and fear…
The photography series ”Merseyside and Brexit” by Berlin photographer Sandra Ratkovic is devoted to the upheavals in England that go hand in hand with the Brexit vote.
Sandra Ratkovic traveled to England several times after the Brexit vote had been decided and photographed people and scenes in Merseyside, Northern England.
The underlying question of the photography series is:
Can you guess who voted for Brexit and who didn’t?
Sandra Ratkovic asked people in Merseyside if she could take a spontaneous photograph of them in the streets. Afterwards, she asked them about their vote and their opinions regarding Brexit.
The portraits play with the viewer’s expectations, asking the viewer to decide for themselves whether the person portrayed may have voted for Brexit – or not.
The photographer’s intention is that the viewer of the photographs is pushed, through this process, to examine – and question – their internalised assessments and assumptions.
Another important question that Sandra Ratkovic hopes to examine with her images is:
What is the situation of the people in England after the Brexit vote, and what are the implications regarding visual changes in everyday life and in the urban scenarios, such as a rise of patriotic symbols.
Especially in comparison with the traditional image and aesthetics of Great Britain.
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Sandra Ratkovic (1980, Frankfurt, Nemačka) je fotografkinja iz Berlina.
Njen rad se fokusira na umetničkoj dokumentarnoj fotografiji i zainteresovana je za “hvatanje” svakodnevnih aktivnosti kojima bi pričala priču o različitim mestima i različitim kulturološkim normama.
Više o Sandrinom radu: http://www.sandra-ratkovic.com
engl:
Sandra Ratkovic (*1980, Frankfurt/Main) is a photographer from Berlin.
She focuses on free artistic documentary photography and is interested in capturing everyday activities to tell stories of different places and different cultural norms.
More:
http://www.sandra-ratkovic.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):
• Artist Residency and Exhibition Footnote Centre, Belgrade, Serbia (2021)
• Merseyside and Brexit, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam, Germany (2020)
• Parallel Biographies, Goethe-Institute Belgrade, Serbia (2020)
• Parallel Biographies, mitOst Festival, Budapest, Hungary (2020)
• Moscow, Kunstverein Hochrhein, Germany (2019)
• Moscow, Kunstverein Erlangen, Germany (2019)
• Parallel Biographies, City Museum Novi Sad, Serbia (2019)
• In and out of EU, FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (2019)
• Merseyside and Brexit, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Germany (2018)
• Moscow, Isherwood Gallery, Wigan Arts Festival, UK (2017)
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS IN 2022:
• Streetart in the Countryside, Kunstverein Donnersbergkreis, Germany (2022)
• Streetart in the Countryside, SCOPE BLN, Berlin, Germany (2022)
• Artistic research on labour, part of the cultural program of the DAAD German Studies Conference in Irkutsk, Siberia (2022)
• Transformations – Digital Fairy Tales, video exhibition, projection on the Manhattan Bridge, New York (2022)
PUBLICATIONS:
• Merseyside and Brexit, Monographic Photography Book, Hatje Cantz Publishing (2020)
• Moscow. Moscow. Москва, Monographic Photography Book, Hatje Cantz Publishing (2017)
• Exhibition Catalogue “Parallel Biographies”, Museum City of Novi Sad (2019)
• Streetart on the Countryside, Exhibition Catalogue by Kunstverein Donnersbergkreis (2022)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS:
• Scholarship Kunstverein Donnersberg (2021)
• Exhibition funding, ifa – institute for foreign relations (2021)
• VG Bild- Neustart grant (2021)
• Catalogue grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds, (2020)
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Dizajn plakata: Nina Komel
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