WE ARE THE ONLY TWO MEN AT THE EXHIBITION, RADOSLAV

2007

styrofoam,plaster, wood, cardboard, 420 x 60 x 60 cm

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the Jury of this year's edition of Radoslav Putar Award consists of five women who have selected four finalists among whom three of them are women

to be minority / isolation

problem of emancipation in hands of emancipated group

on the other hand I apply typically male approach

producing the bust and placing it in the very center of exhibiting space

making it significant, creating it pompous / personality cult, heroism

phallic form / totem, symbol of adoring

accentuated male position

title of the work is twofold - can be understood as a macho statement and in the same time it offers ascertainment of slight panic

usage of colloquial language and slang to stress belonging to the same group

work refers to relations burdened by social, sex and gender, ideological and traditional differences

prejudices

exclusivity of certain groups, intolerance, creating

the system of values within those groups