This two years long project represents an exception of the ordinary curatorial praxis of annual or thematic exhibitions showing the artists’ final works. The new methodological model, which was introduced and successfully implemented, is based on the collective process of researching the wider context (political, social, intellectual) in which the art performs. In the final part – EXPOSURES – there were publicly shown all the phases of the work that the curators (altogether with numerous actors – participants in this two years long work in progress articulated through the debates, workshops and, in the end, the exhibition.

The main topics of the first part of the project – CAN YOU SPEAK OF THIS? YES, I CAN – were: “issue of collaboration, complicity, trauma articulation, issue of exile and returning, memory politics, language politics, politicization of art versus culturalization of politics. These issues, in the second part – EXPOSURES – through group gathering and generating of new, temporary communities of the artists, theoreticians, students and curators, become the groundwork of new collaborations initiating thus creation of the new vocabularies.”

During the exhibition, organized in the abandoned structure of the “Rudi Čajavec” factory, besides individual and group artworks and interventions, there were held series of public debates, presentations of the results of two years long research – film and video screenings, theatre shows footages. The majority of participants were coming from Banja Luka, Mostar, Tuzla, Trebinje, Sarajevo, Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristine.

The exhibition is consisted of the selection of the works already presented in EXPOSURES.

Participants:
Monument Group / 4 Faces of Omarska (Belgrade), Lala Raščić (Sarajevo), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade), Anja Bogojević and Amila Puzić (Abart, Mostar),Sandra Dukić and Boris Glamočanin (Banja Luka),Igor Bošnjak (Trebinje)

Selector: Dunja Blažević
Presentation: Radenko Milak (Banja Luka)director of Protok, Centre for Visual Communication from Banja Luka and the project SpaPort

Vernissage: 14. Mai 2013. at 19h
Presentation: 15. Mai 2013. at 12h