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Jasmina Cibic
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The works of Jasmina Cibic posit themselves as sitespecific interventions where myths are fabricated in order to disrupt the normal flow of events; space hy bridisation takes place through the use of personal poetics, which are inserted directly into the existing bureaucratic apparatus or institutions and thus the visual field of the casual passer-by. She is interested in the contingencies of geopolitical identity chasing the expanding fiction of certain places and position ing the viewer as a tourist and the art object as a sou venir in a shared negotiation of site. By depicting it, Cibic questions the phenomena of non-places in con temporary society – those sacred, unavailable or tran
sitional spaces between static territorial coordinates. For their formally purified and unusual appearance, photographs of aircraft interiors, stuffed animals or shaman look-alikes create a surreal visual sensation of the world that functions outside rational human perception. These are spaces where expectations, desires and imagination begin and end. In the imag es of so-called non-places the anticipation of the fu ture world, marked by its iconography and design, is subtly reflected through their emptiness, purity and sterility. Jas mi na C ib i c & M i ha Co lne r
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Jasmina Cibic, Boutique Airports II, 2006, C-type print, 30 × 30 cm, © and courtesy the artist
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Jasmina Cibic, The Greenhouse Effect (52° 51' 07,68" N, 1° 06' 28,04" E), 2006, Lambda print, 120 × 120 cm, © and courtesy the artist
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Jasmina Cibic, Untitled (Unrealised Locations I), 2007, Lambda print, 120 × 120 cm, © and courtesy the artist