DIARY: SYMBOLS OF GRUND
exhibition, 2022
It’s not just about taking good care of the property. There is no lock that can resist absolute violence, and all locks are invitations to thieves. The lock is a psychological threshold.“
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Mortals dwell in that they await the divinities as divinities. In hope they hold up to the divinities what is unhoped for. They wait for intimations of their coming and do not mistake the signs of their absence. They do not make their gods for them- selves and do not worship idols. In the very depth of misfortune they wait for the weal that has been withdrawn.
– Martin Heidegger, Building, Dwelling, Thinking
One can look in through windows from the outside and climb in through them, and the public sphere can break into a private house through the door. One can of course protect windows from spies and burglars by installing shutters or protect the door from the police by building a drawbridge, but then one lives in fear, stuck within one’s four walls.”
– Vilém Flusser, The Shape of Things
This being the case, if I were asked to name the main benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Jovana Štikovac
was born 1997 in Belgrade and currently living in Barcelona, Spain, doing a PhD in Humanities in the University of Pompeu Fabra. She holds a BA and a MA in painting form the University of Arts in Belgrade, the Faculty of Applied Arts.
Apart from painting itself, she has been doing Photography, Graphic design and Music production.
the shelter / hinterGRUND
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