Performance, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art of Republica of Srpska
Cur. Isidora Branjac




          

Did you dream of a fish last night?
Telepathic experiences are a miracle, and connection is never excluded. Just quieter. Perhaps deeper. Luxury does not belong to matter, but to belief. When a plastic plate is served as privilege, and canned sardines as collective enjoyment – class cynicism becomes an aesthetic. The festive table is the scenography of power. A simulation of equality where everyone is invited, but no one is truly included. A democratic illusion in which poverty is ritualized, while the institution carefully orchestrates it. With its eternally seductive melody. The woman who serves is not the hostess. She is the mechanism. Her gesture is political: for the meal to be accepted, it must be offered with a smile. The performance does not depict violence – it normalizes it. That is its brutality. It does not shock. It reminds us. That we have already become accustomed to it.