Texts
STATEMENT
By Damir Radovic
STATEMENT
By Damir Radovic
Exile becomes diaspora and plunges the individual into a state of permanent intellectual nomadism.
He no longer possesses a history, but stories.
The sum of these stories defines the collective memory which is the raw material of my research.
I mix, model and organize this material from its archetypal, generic and utopian forms to create a new memory.
This approach through art allows me to apprehend and inhabit the world around me.
The memory is built with the language, with the words.
In my artistic approach, titles come before my reflection and indicate the meaning that a new piece will take. The title often appears as the symbol of an imminent end; for me it is the sign of a new beginning. The declensions of my work (installation, neon, video, drawing…) help me to seize the real in its cultural and social aspects, to better free myself from it.
My drawings question art in its fundamental dimensions.
I determine the conditions of possibility of our experiences and upset our relationship to the world as much as our relationship to the work and life.
Through my works I seek to extract myself from reality. I create universes based on the memories of a disappeared world mixed with the present world to tell and transmit new stories.
These stories distill to the viewer a dose of cynical humor.
Humor and cynicism to resist the sometimes chaotic world that surrounds us and to reflect on our society and the one we want for tomorrow…
Interview with Pascal Thevenet
For the exhibition 28 juin après : Don't shoot, I'm a phantom, Bourse du Travail, Valence, 2022
Interview with Pascal Thevenet
For the exhibition 28 juin après : Don't shoot, I'm a phantom, Bourse du Travail, Valence, 2022
Entrefaites
Par Xavier Jullien
Pour l'exposition Entrefaites, Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux, 2017
Entrefaites
Par Xavier Jullien
Pour l'exposition Entrefaites, Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux, 2017
Rétrospectivement agile
Par Aurélien Pelletier
Pour l'exposition Rétrospectivement agile, Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin d'Hères, 2013
Rétrospectivement agile
Par Aurélien Pelletier
Pour l'exposition Rétrospectivement agile, Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin d'Hères, 2013
Interview with Cindy Tereba
For Lepsien art Foundation, 2012
Interview with Cindy Tereba
For Lepsien art Foundation, 2012
On a merdé en Europe
Par Jean-François Caron
Publié sur gueulart.wordpress.com, mai 2011
On a merdé en Europe
Par Jean-François Caron
Publié sur gueulart.wordpress.com, mai 2011
Damir Radović - On the edge of reality
By Markus Kersting, historien de l'art, 2011
Damir Radović - On the edge of reality
By Markus Kersting, historien de l'art, 2011
Un nouveau barbare
Par Dean Inkster, 2002
Un nouveau barbare
Par Dean Inkster, 2002
Other texts online
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Entretien avec Jongyeon Park et Julie Rodriguez-Malti
Dans le cadre No More…, Hors-les-Murs de Néon, 2017
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Le sacre d'un cri
Par Anaïs Delmas, 2014
À propos de l'exposition Memory Lane, Galerie du jour - agnès b., Paris -
Texte de Pierre Curtin
À propos de l'exposition 7events bros, Galerie Duplex100m2, Sarajevo, 2014
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Shoelaces are Undone and Zagor against Zagor
By Naomi Hennig
Published in Spaceship Yugoslavia - The Suspension of Time, NGBK, Berlin, 2011