We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Dear Boss, that showcases works of two artists, Anastasija Pavić i Alma Gačanin. The exhibition opens on Thursday 4.8.2022. at 18h in Novembar gallery. On this occassion artists will perform the piece Oral Fixation, that deals with gender roles, identity position of woman as worker.
By engaging in themes of sexuality, womanhood, and work, and through explicit performative femininity and/or the use of popular culture motifs, the works of Alma Gačanin and Anastasija Pavić challenge and provoke social consensuses on which these topics are upheld. The highly performative female subjects are perverted to their extreme as a means of reconsidering their own understanding of being the product of male desire. In the current context of homogenizing economic and socio-political structures, the artists aim to reposition their own hybrid socio-technological bodies – said the art historian Maja Petrović in an exhibition catalogue.
The exhibition runs from the 4th of August to the 11th of September 2022. Gallery doors are open daily (except Mondays) from 12 to 8 PM; Saturdays, from 10 AM to 6 PM and Sundays, from 10 AM to 2 PM, addr. 22, Kursulina street.
Biographies
Anastasija Pavić (1998) is a student of Professor Zoran Todorović at the New Media Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. In her artistic practice, she deals with contemporary social issues such as post-cyber feminism, consumerism, interpersonal relations and the impact of the Internet on society. She finds her artistic expression in the media of performance, photography, collage and drawing.
Alma Gačanin (Sarajevo, 23 November 1988 at 5:05 a.m.) lives and works as an artist, regardless of the work she is doing at any given moment. Her work is based on researching the specifics of labour and the precariousness of certain professions for which she attended professional trainings. She obtained her master’s degree in fine arts education at the Teaching Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. She engages in drawing, photography, video, and performance. She is particularly interested in the position of women in capitalism, biopolitics, value theory and social reproduction. She won the best artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina award – ZVONO 2022 and was a finalist of the same award in 2016. She represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Milan in 2015. She is a feminist in her private life and her roles as artist-worker. Recently, she worked as a flight attendant in Saudi Arabia, touching directly on the problems of precariat and repressive patriarchy, questioning the good life through something we consider a dream job. She is currently working in a client facing role for a foreign company. She writes poetry, and has published poems in magazines, anthologies and web portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.
