15 Sep 2011

I Will Never Talk About the War Again at Färgfabriken

I Will Never Talk About the War Again
September 17 – November 19, 2011

The show is part of Färgfabriken's global project Psychosis.

Participating artists: Marina Abramović, Lana Čmajčanin, Chto Delat?, Igor Grubić, Živko Grozdanić Gera, Adela Jušić, Nikolay Oleynikov, Shadow Museum, Alma Suljević, Jaroslav Supek
Curator: Vladan Jeremić

This falls major exhibition at Färgfabriken is the first part of a long-term commitment called Psychosis. A global project intended to illuminate the human psyche, both from an individual and collective perspective. In a series of events, we will deal with aspects of the project theme. It touches on areas such as political extremism, alternative social structures or the human perception. We are interested in how these phenomena are expressed and interpreted in art, literature and science.
I Will Never Talk About the War Again* relates the condition of society with personal experience. Presented artists are related to the Balkans and deal with testimonies of trauma or collective psychosis of the traumatic post-war society, yet try to avoid stereotypes or to exoticize.
Based on the situation in the Balkans today, we want to illustrate the relationship between individual and society. Many people in former Yugoslavia suffer from traumatic experiences from the civil war in the 90s. Nationalism, homophobia, xenophobia or non-tolerance toward any different social group can be seen as complex post war syndromes and are hard-core reality of such societies. The situation in the Balkans also reflects what is happening in many other places in the world today.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog including, in addition to an introduction to the exhibition, essays by Cecilia Sjöholm, professor in aesthetics at Södertörns University; Sezgin Boynik, sociologist and PhD candidate at Jyväskylä University, Finland and Šefik Tatlić, theoretician with MA in Journalism and PhD candidate at the University in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Färgfabriken is an art venue and a 'laboratory of the contemporary', founded in 1995 in Stockholm. From its inception, Färgfabriken has been developing its own path and its own approach to art, architecture and urban planning. We are a politically independent and non-profit foundation.
Vladan Jeremić (b. 1975, Belgrade) is a curator and artist who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. In his artistic and curatorial practice he researches and develops interactions between contemporary art and political activism. Together with his artist colleague Rena Rädle he founded Biro Beograd, an association that provides a platform for critical practice that goes beyond conventional forms of contemporary art, cultural and social research, or activism. Jeremić has curated many exhibitions in both local and international contexts and was one of the initiators of the project 'Call the Witness: 2nd Roma Pavilion' at the 54th Venice Biennial.

*The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the video performance I Will Never Talk About the War Again, by the two artists Adela Jušić and Lana Čmajčanin.