Serbia at the 52nd Venice Biennial, featuring Mrdjan Bajic
Serbia at the 52nd Venice Biennial
At the 52nd Venice Biennial, Serbia will be represented by PROJECT RESET proposed by sculptor Mrdjan Bajic (1957) and commissioned by painter Vladimir Velickovic. The PROJECT RESET, Serbia’s first independent showing at the Biennial, will be housed in Pavilion Yugoslavia in the Giardini. It will consist of three parts YUGOMUSEUM, BACKUP and RESET.
“Mrdjan Bajic has now been selected to exhibit at the national pavilion for the second time. And this little house in Venice has in fact gone through a process very similar to the artist’s, a search for identity, positioning itself in contradictory historical circumstances that changed many times over, changing its name four times, it’s citizenship the same number of times, and all of it of course (and fortunately) not moving from the Venetian garden. The pavilion that carried the name of communist Yugoslavia, then the smaller, wartime Yugoslavia, and then yet smaller, nervous union of Serbia and Montenegro, now becomes a national pavilion of a small state called Serbia. The name that for years was a symbol of war and devastation in the simplified views of public opinion, now resumes its right to be something other than that.”