Irene Knezevic - Various Instances of Negligible Mistake
“This series tarted in the “Belgrade Institute for the Mentally Insane”, where I interned to portray patients whose illness was attributed to the 1990’s wars in the Balkans. Not allowed and interested to show their faces realistically, I manipulated the images to create surrealist “floating heads”, citing the portraits of the insane and guillotined heads by Théodore Géricault. The portraits are harmnized with instances of formal exception and imperfection as indexed by Danil Kharms (a yellow cable in the middle of a green field) and inforced by instances of insanity lingering in the memory of a landcape ( vistas that Hitler saw during his daily walks around Munich)”.
-knevezic.
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