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Jelica Radovanovic and Dejan Andelkovic: A Multimedia Project, The Gallery of Modern Art at the Pancevo Cultural Center, April 3^rd – 20^th, 2012.

By: Slađana Golijanin

Jelica Radovanovic and Dejan Andelkovic, an artist couple from Belgrade, have been creating and exhibiting their artwork together for over two decades.  They decided to work together when they realized that they had the same or similar ideas and that their ways of realization coincided.  In their method of creating, various media and materials are used, while the themes that intrigue these two artists remain the same at their core, with minor variances from 1991 until today.  This time period is at the same time characterized by turbulent and radical changes in social relationships, in the status of the individual in society, as well as in the role of art in society.  Above all, the themes that they deal with are based on the reexamination of the identity of the subject via Lacan’s theory of language, through the relationship between and towards “The Great Other,” and, in the past few years, on questions that are posed by neoliberalism.  The modern framework of life and work in this region, which appeared after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, is developed by the artists from the aspect of posing questions instead of giving concrete and defined answers.  In this way, new works of art also enter the prism of former interests, and they are placed under the inspection and research of relational instances between those concepts from the social practice of the former Yugoslav States which seem to have been determined once and for all.

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