ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION (2019)
Group Show. Curated by C-print at GELB (Stockholm)

Validate Me
200x300cm Print on plastic with sound piece on cassette tape

“With this (identity-politics-themed) work i’m channeling subjects like double identity and migration consisting of a Yugoslavian passport blown up in scale, and a sound piece which is a mashup of the former Yugoslavian and the Swedish national anthems - which become a metaphor for inner conflicts that arise from being part of a country that no longer exists.”

'Absolute Affirmation'
Curated by C-print at GELB - August 16 through September 8

The exhibition sees the artists extending personal reflections on universal matters that relate to borders, displacement/migration and social biases. The works inform in the midst the construction of expat colonies overseas, silent norms underpinned by cultural and aesthetical standards that dictate the conditions of entering and habituating certain rooms, the resurfacing and upsurge of patriarchial orders and imperatives towards women and the malaise of eternal waiting by way of official/social agencies for pivotal moments to arise that never seem to do.

Artists: Jesper Nordahl, Slobodan Zivic, Sahar Tavasolian, Salad Hilowle, Ulrika Gunnarsdotter, Agnieszka Abramowicz and Oktawian Bohdziewicz.

Title. Validate Me (2019) Image taken from artist Slobodan Zivic’s expired passport from former land of Yugoslavia. Before the civil war Zivic had dual citizenships - Swedish and Yugoslavian. Sound: Swedish national anthem (Du gamla, du fria) mashed up with Yugoslavian national anthem (Hej, Sloveni).