Promotion of the artist’s book Wanderlust by Mirjana Boba Stojadinović

Tuesday, 25^th January, 2022, at 06:00 p.m.

The number of the people present at the promotion is limited to 30, so please come in time to take your place

The promotion will be broadcast live on social media

 

Exactly one year after the solo exhibition Wanderlust by Mirjana Boba Stojadinović, which was staged in the Gallery of Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (in January, 2021), and afterwards in the Grand Gallery of Šok Zadruga (in July, 2021), the Museum of Applied Art is organising the promotion of the artist’s book created from this very material – author’s photographs and notes.

In order to place the artist’s book in the context of the museum institution, the travel photographs from the Vladarski family’s private albums, belonging to the MAA’s collection, will also be presented at the promotion.

The promotion will covered by the speeches delivered by the following:

• Biljana Jotić, art historian and curator, MAA’s Acting Director
• Jelena Perać, MA, museum advisor, Collection of Photography and Print Room
• Teodora Jeremić, art historian, freelance curator
• Nikola Radosavljević, PhD in Arts, artist, defended his PhD thesis on the topic of the artist’s book, initiator of the formation of a separate collection of artists’ books at the National Library of Serbia
• the author herself.

The project Wanderlust is one of a series of Mirjana Boba Stojadinović’s artistic researches dedicated to the subjective experience of travels. The artist’s book Wanderlust is the result of the author’s contemplation on the phenomenon of travelling from her personal point of view. The format of the artist’s book naturally encompasses 132 black-and-white photographs selected from the volume of several tens of thousands of the artist’s photographs taken in the period between 2003 and 2019, accompanied by 40 textual notes – stories and profound self-reflective narratives.

The artwork dedicated to exile is not accidentally created during the severe pandemic we are all hit by – not as escapism from the seriousness of the situation, but as a refuge for the potential of humanity that we carry within us.

The text accompanying the above mentioned exhibitions can be read on the following link.

Mirjana Boba Stojadinović is a visual artist, academically educated in Serbia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Since 1998, she has been exhibiting her works solo in the country and abroad, and she has also participated in, organised and curated a number of group exhibitions. She is the winner the 25^th Nadežda Petrović Memorial Award. Space and narration, along with the performatively used photograph, text, sound, light and object, make the focus of her interest.

She is the author of the discursive project and the book The Artist as an Audience. She is an associate of the Culture Editorial Board of Radio Belgrade 2. Her text Alienated Spectacle was shortlisted for the 2021 Lazar Trifunović Award for art criticism and theoretical perception of contemporary visual art.

The publication of the artist’s book Wanderlust was co-financed from the budget of the Republic of Serbia – the Ministry of Culture and Information, and was technically supported by the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia / ULUS.