Aleksandra Domanivić: Where reality and illusion meet
“We cannot only change our future – we can also change our history … ultimately, it’s about how our history and our stories are open to the possibilities and risks of perception.”
Commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, an initiative that supports international artists in the creation and exhibition of their work, Aleksandra Domanović´s explores the disconnect between appearance and reality through the use of medical technology. This large-scale installation, “Becoming Another” was revealed this week in Berlin in collaboration with Gallery Weekend Berlin, an astounding event known to every art enthusiastic. It will be showing from September 17th through October 10th, 2021.
In “Becoming Another” Domanović’s art proposes a glimpse into her own personal history mixed with her present technologically obsessed self, offering a space for a multifaceted work. Living and working in Berlin has made the artist contemplate the implications of her past in her present, giving her artwork a focus on identity differences. Domanović’s as well takes into consideration both, the political and historical implications of her birthplace, former Yugoslavia, and employs it in her work. By linking her personal history and the past with our increasingly technology-dependent present, Domanović questions society and offers a unique interpretation of the convoluted digital world we live in.
Embracing both sculpture and computer-based media, Domanović makes the most of the former printing plant where the installation is showed. There is a sense of disparity between what is real and what we perceive, since the piece of art showcases a collage of video images through rotating LED fan-displays which are altered depending on the viewer’s location.
Domanović is the latest artist to work with Audemars Piguet Contemporary, art curator Denis Pernet mentions his deep appreciation and admiration for her timely practice and is delighted to support her “in the development of this new body of work that will contribute to the wider contemporary art discourse and raise questions about our future as we begin to emerge from the past year.”
In “Becoming Another” Domanović’s art proposes a glimpse into her own personal history mixed with her present technologically obsessed self, offering a space for a multifaceted work. Living and working in Berlin has made the artist contemplate the implications of her past in her present, giving her artwork a focus on identity differences. Domanović’s as well takes into consideration both, the political and historical implications of her birthplace, former Yugoslavia, and employs it in her work. By linking her personal history and the past with our increasingly technology-dependent present, Domanović questions society and offers a unique interpretation of the convoluted digital world we live in.
Embracing both sculpture and computer-based media, Domanović makes the most of the former printing plant where the installation is showed. There is a sense of disparity between what is real and what we perceive, since the piece of art showcases a collage of video images through rotating LED fan-displays which are altered depending on the viewer’s location.
Domanović is the latest artist to work with Audemars Piguet Contemporary, art curator Denis Pernet mentions his deep appreciation and admiration for her timely practice and is delighted to support her “in the development of this new body of work that will contribute to the wider contemporary art discourse and raise questions about our future as we begin to emerge from the past year.”
