HOME ECONOMICS CLASS: I’LL SHOW YOU MINE IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS

6 – 25 October 2023

Opening of the exhibition: Friday, 6 October 2023 at 7 pm

Exhibition curator: Jelena Popović, MAA senior curator, Belgrade

Organizer: the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade

 

The search for female authorship in porcelain: an exhibition by artist Valentina Savić

Starting from post-structuralist feminist theories, the exhibition of Valentina Savić, PhD, Home economics class: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours, deals with the topic of women’s authorship in ceramics and from that point of view, it examines the issues of prejudice, freedom, institutional canons, consumer society, traditions and gender roles. For over two decades, Savić has cultivated a unique approach to ceramics, balancing between sculpture and design, as well as developing her research and reflections in porcelain. Problematizing contemporary social phenomena, she has created her own mise-en-scène using profoundly intimate motives, philosophical thought and the language of gender art. The objects on display, from everyday items to a ceramic industrially produced urinal, metaphorically refer to and problematize social phenomena and gender roles.

The exhibition Home economics class – I’ll show you mine if you show me yours was chosen by the Council of the Museum of Applied Art Salon following a public competition, as part of the 2023 exhibition program of the Museum of Applied Art. Large multimedia ceramic installations are structured according to conceptual units and follow several phases in Savić’s creativity. The exhibition features a new production of artworks made specifically for this exhibition, as well as the artist’s items from the Collection of the Museum of Applied Art, along with some older referential artworks.

Valentina Savić was born in 1970 in Prizren, RS. She graduated in 1998 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Ceramics. From 1998 to 2000, she was a Greek government scholarship holder for specialization at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, the Department of Sculpture. She received her master’s degree in 2007 and her doctorate in 2023 at the Department of Ceramics, FAA, in Belgrade. She has been actively exhibiting since 1996, a member of the Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia (ULUPUDS) since 1998 and the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) since 2019. She has held 16 solo exhibitions and participated in many collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, being awarded several times for her work. She lives and works in Belgrade.

Authors of the photographs: Dragana Udovičić, Vlada Popović