RE-IDENTIFICATIONS

Location: Ul. Mitropolit Teodosij Gologanov, br.70, lokal 2, Skopje 
Opening: 06. 12. 2013 (Friday) / 19:30 
The exhibition will be open until 14.12.2013

Snezana Altiparmak, Metodi Angelov, Mirna Arsovska, Urosh Veljkovic, 
Dijana Bogdanovska, OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska & Denis Saraginovski), 
Fotini Gouseti, Marko Gutic Mizimakov, Neda Firfova, Simon Uzunovski,
Sasho Dimoski, Dimitrie Duracovski, Dushan Drakalski, Ines Efremova, 
Ivan Ivanovski, Jana Jakimovska, Vladimir Jancevski, Vladimir Lukash, 
Filip Jovanovski, Aviv Kruglanski, Ana Lazarevska, Gjorgje Jovanovik, 
Oliver Musovik, Mile Nicevski, Vahida Ramujkic, Igor Sekovski, 
Aleksandar Spasoski, Slavica Toshevska, Igor Toshevski, Boris Shemov, 
Nada Prlja

Re-identifications aims to speak about anonymity from the position of obscurity, or renaming from the aspect of namelessness. Consequently, the main emphasis here is the very questioning of identity by exploiting the name as a sign / symbol and of course, the possible implications of the open (public) versus the hidden (anonymous) in the context of the inevitable relationship between the aesthetic and the political. 

The question is whether and what we can actually do to define and determine the territory of the personal in relation to the actual spatial boundary, yet within social space? This is especially reflected in the field of contemporary art where through installation art as an immersive presentation, it incorporates not only diverse media and techniques, but also the space that naturally becomes an integral part of the work. And perhaps more important is the question of what is specifically implied in such a set of detached entities / works viewed on a political level.

On the other hand, though it may be often heard that “the work speaks for itself,” if deprived of its context, it becomes harder, perhaps even impossible for it to be fully interpreted. But, Kooperacija sees a compelling challenge precisely by confronting the art object without the mediation of its associated items, which significantly reveal its context. Therefore, one of the main conditions for participation in this particular exhibition was the request to consciously renounce (even if only temporarily or symbolically) any feature, which would indicate the identity of the author. This deviation from the standard, modernist museum-gallery principles further positions the work in a condition of uncertain interpretation, a state of imbalance and consequently, a distortion in the artist-viewer relationship. Finally, such an unstable configuration can be interpreted as a kind of reflection of the socio-political conditions, which exist today.

Therefore, Re-identifications is an attempt to examine certain stances of anonymity through the process of amalgamation of autonomous works from numerous artists who, speaking from a personal point of view, address aspects of collective identity as well as those of authorship itself, individual responsibility, self-censorship and related aspects of social existence.

Kooperacija would like to thank Violeta and Sasho Koneski  for putting the space at our disposal.