Clothed Paintings II is the second iteration of collaborative project with painter Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, started in 2013. Installation spans in between art (painting) and clothes (fashion design and dressing), and includes artists’ main themes of interest—elements of game and play typical for Aleksandar’s practice, and haptic experience of dressed body in architectural space, central motif of Danica’s research of perception of built environment.
In the second iteration, our focus expanded to include architectural aspects: space-making and the body as an architectural element. We used deconstructed clothes as a canvas for two large paintings and as wearable objects attached to the long textile strips. Unlike the first interaction, Clothed Paintings II invited visitors to engage more closely with the artwork and to play with the re-attachable strips and exhibited pieces of clothing. Through movement and activity in space, the human body becomes “living” part of Aleksandar’s game, as well as part of the process of space-making — with each interaction, visitors were creating a new space. The exhibited garments enhance bodily awareness for each participant if they decide to wear them, simultaneously allowing visitors to become a part of the art work and architectural space in becoming.
Exhibition opening. All photos by Dejan Klement.
Clothed Paintings II was realised as a part of the artist in residence program at UVUU.
Exhibited in September 2017 in Gallery Reflektor, Uzice.
Supported by:
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The University of Melbourne
Textil
Hrabri Krojac
Special thanks: Ljuba Pecinar, Nevena Andjić, Blagojevic family, Dejan Klement, Jelena Dimitrijević