Review article
Archival Strategies in Postsocialist Art: The Sculpture Collection "Trash" by Mrdjan Bajić (1987-2007)
Ana Bogdanović
Abstract
Starting from an impulse to collect and archive discarded objects, materials, and symbols of bygone and suppressed experiences as the methodological framework of artistic work, this paper reflects upon and analyses these strategies in the opus of Belgrade artist Mrdjan Bajić, using as a case study his collection of sculptures titled Trash. Considering the term “postsocialism” as a signifier for artistic reflection on the socialist past and its legacy, the author focuses on exploring the artist’s procedure in building up the collection of Trash sculpture as a set of processes aimed at destabilizing, critically reproducing, and re-actualizing historical narratives in the unstable circumstances of the transitional present.
Keywords
artistic methods of collecting and archiving; the experience of Yugoslav socialist past; Mrdjan Bajić; social memory; construction of remembrance
Hrčak ID:
185576
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2014.
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