(Re)production is a performance piece in which I offer audience a copy of the poster with an appropriated photograph of a baby, printed in a large edition. With this work I am putting to irony the concept of art making as a site within which women cannot distinguish themselves for they are fully accomplished by giving birth to children. The work was initiated by the stance inscribed within some of the exam literature at the academy of fine arts where I read that 'women don't have the urge to create art because of their ability to bear children'; the statement many times said as a subtext but also many times rather directly. I wanted to stress the problem of education based primarily on old literature and challenge this discourse that prevailed during my studies.
I perform the conversation with the public whereby the thought process which led me to conceive (Re)production is discussed with willing visitors who are offered a poster carrying an image of a baby that is at the same time an art product, as emphasized with distribution trough cultural channels such as galleries, but symbolically the audience receives a new life as well.
As the appropriated photograph of a baby is an image of my partner as a child, I am assuming the role of a matrix - referring to the media of printmaking itself - trough which the image and the new life are metaphorically reproduced both an artwork and the child in one.
After the performance the posters stay inside the exhibition space as a form of installation/documentation of the past event but now they are covered with a transparent glass lid not to be taken by visitors themselves. It is possible trough agreement to get a copy of a poster by in this way provoking another performance.
2008/2009 performed, 2009 video 4’34”
public presentations/exhibitions: VN Gallery Zagreb, 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, SC Gallery Zagreb, 5th Days of Graphic Arts Osijek, O3on Gallery Belgrade