ARTiculAction
Milena Jovicevic
Project Balkans, 2013, Basel
Man games, Arte gallery, Belgrade 2011
Genesis about first humans Adam and Eve. Both works include wall drawings, drawings on paper and adhesive tapes using the architecture of the space and video projection. Projection consists of video animation called Adam i ... which I realized of drawings drawn in iPhone. I “moved” the ancient legend about the origin of the world from traditional field of painting and wall painting to the terrain of high technology. The little i in the title means and in Montenegrin but it also refers to the media of realization (iPhone). Instead Adam and Eve we have Adam i(and)...Eve is not so imporatant to be in the title. Animation is intentionally made without any sophisticated montage and it looks very naive like very first video games. Work explores ironicaly male- female ralations through relations of first humans. After being created by a woman, not a God, Adam is using all of his ribs to create the rest of the world: other humans, animals, nature....
First woman he created- Eve is just seductive female that decorates his paradise. Quickly, Adam becomes a destructive monster who kills all that is created. Little funny icons from the drawing software ironically support eroticized and aggres-sive scenes of “contemporary paradise”… This paradise becomes very morbid environment. When he distroes everything he hangs himself at the end... The story of Adam and Eve from story of biggining of the world (iGenesis) turns into story of the end of the world (iDisappearance). Just little leaf from Adam’s body survives this catastrophe and will maybe make better world....
Jennifer Sims
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