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The First Cut

from All naked by Manja Ristić

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Part of the triptych composed for exhibition The First Cut by Serbian painter Simonida Rajčević. Exhibition was held in the Salon of the Contemporary Museum of Belgrade, in October 2014.

Here is an excerpt from the curatorial text: Art as Critical Process. Bodies Outside of Forest (( by Žaklina Ratković, curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, full text at simonidasimonida.com ))

Oppositions nature and culture, body and spirit, freedom (of choice) and necessity, life and death, carry one of the keys for understanding only some layers of meaning in the new works of Simonida Rajčević. The new art project includes big format drawings put up in interaction with ambient-light-sound installation that, although executed in another medium, actually represents expansion of syntax and completes and concludes the whole conceptually. The very title The First Cut carries fascination and possibility of multiple interpretations, while in its basic meaning this expression stands in almost paradoxical contrast with the formal characteristics of the exhibition...

...In this work, which functions as an allegorical depiction, the same character is shown by the process of repetition, but in different activities, a young athletic man (mythical hero, with a sword/stick in his hand), whose phenomenal form is in total opposition with his activity. Like a reflection in a double mirror, the figure doubles and infinitely multiplies, and by this repetition of one and the same, like a pattern, the effect of aggression is intensified. When observed in a series, like on an antique frieze, these moving bodies live in virtual circular time, in some kind of circular stream of consciousness. Forest/nature is given as a place of production of tensions, with his activity, in the illusion of power, control, man becomes a matrix, a clone, which fades more and more through multiplication, vanishes, dematerializes. In an attempt to subjugate nature, he destroys entire systems, in fact destroying himself.

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from All naked, released March 5, 2016
Manja Ristić, field recordings, samples, editing
Rastko Lazić, electronic material
Simonida Rajčević, cover art

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Manja Ristić Belgrade, Serbia

Born in Belgrade 1979. Violinist, sound artist, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improvisation & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the Royal College of Music, London. ... more

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