GASTFREUNDSCHAFT, GASTFREUDE, GASTFREUNDE
video installation, 2022
In some situations, I was haunted, and in others, I haunted the places that can be called home. By constantly moving, growing up in conflict times, feeling like a guest, and struggling with different ethnicities and religions I often had to occupy spaces. They had things and furnishings belonging to someone else, and I began to adapt to a preset of objects that were haunting the space towards which I had to reorient my habits.
– Aleksandra Saša Jeremić, secondaryarchive.org
How do we come to the place of having the GRUND under the feet? What objects are required for that and how do they define us? Our reality as experiencing beings is defined simultaneously by the experience of being at home and by the experience of not being at home. In the home everyone can be accepted and welcomed, or he can be conditionally welcomed.
How the body and the spirit are controlled from the outside and inside, is to me the way history is embodied. I explore the immaterial form of my works and how to express it visually […]. In the tension between politics and poetics, I find knots that I need to understand and untangle.
– Aleksandra Saša Jeremić, secondaryarchive.org
In my works, I explore the vulnerability of human existence in its social and cultural context by examining power structures in both the private and public spheres.
– Aleksandra Saša Jeremić, secondaryarchive.org
Making a home by cleaning the rug is a meditative process that connects mind and body in the peaceful act of kindness to the ground and taking care of our surroundings.
surroundings
Aleksandra Saša Jeremić
(1988, Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina) graduated Faculty of Economy, at the University of Belgrade (2011), and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2019), and from 2021 Free Art studies at the Braunschweig University of Art.
Her work is based on video and sound installations through which she deals with identity issues, collective and personal memories and experiences of migration in a broader cultural and political context.
She is part of the collective Commons- Imagining the institution of the future and a DAAD scholarship holder.
the laundry room / GRUNDreinigung
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