Palace

On Sunday, 12 June, at the Egység Cultural Station, the audience will have the opportunity to watch three independent, but interconnected performative acts by Selma Selman, Ivana Ivković and Marina Marković, within the ‘Palace’ project.

Palace is the name of the setting in which the three artists will perform individual performances in interaction with each other. The space is a kind of microcosm ruled by clearly established rules to which artists will refer through the medium of performance.

The ‘Palace’ project deals with the topics of autonomy and the economy of power through the provocation of established rules within the hierarchy of the court as a symbol of a heteropatriarchal system that is considered from a woman’s perspective. Starting from the idea of ​​the cultural-historical and architectural heritage of Novi Sad, the exhibition will be placed in the space of the Egység Cultural Station, the former castle and shooting range.

Pointing out the limiting rules of heteronormative systems is the common denominator of the artistic engagements of all three artists. Furthermore, all three of them in their works deal with gender relations, identity, and body, often using performance as an approach to these topics, approaching them from different perspectives. Selma Selman from the position of the subject, in the first person singular, expresses the voices of the oppressed, while Marina Marković places her body as an object over which performing a certain act imitates social oppression over the female body. Ivana Ivković, using and objectifying the male body in her performances, discusses stereotypical gender roles in society from the point of view of women and looks back from the nakedness of women to the nakedness of men. Their works express an articulated rebellion through which society and its limits are reflected.

For the first time, these three authors, who are already experimenting in completely different ways in the field of performance, will find themselves together within a constellation that serves as a conceptual framework.

As part of the additional programme, an exhibition of drawings by three authors will be opened at the ’Bel Art’ Gallery in Novi Sad on Thursday, 9 June.

After the performance, the audience will be able to see the installation and video of the performance, as well as to attend the reading of women’s poetry and the conversation with the authors of the project at the Egység Cultural Station.

Erste Bank is the partner of the Heroines programme arch.

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