O izložbi
(English below)
"A šta da ti kažem?", jedan je od nekolicine grafita ispisanih u sarajevskom naselju Hrasno. Ovaj grafit je dosjetka koja, svjesno ili nesvjesno, otvara nekoliko pozicija. S jedne strane, subjektivnu poziciju neznanog autora_ice, koji_a reproducira čestu repliku apolitičnog, letargičnog, ali i beznadežnog. S druge strane, funkcionira kao autoreferencijalno pitanje koje se nameće kada zid i grafit postaju jedno: šta nam i zašto, mogu govoriti zidovi?
Ovo posljednje pitanje predstavlja okosnicu eksperimentalnog i participativnog projekta "#". Galerija Manifesto transformisana je u prostor slobodnog, nekontrolisanog i necenzurisanog izražavanja. Deseci ljudi koji su učestvovali u ovom participativnom projektu postali su grafiti umjetnici, pisci i ulični umjetnici, a njihovi tragovi na zidovima galerije prerasli su iz autorskog djela u kolektivno i anonimno djelo.
Kroz ovaj projekt, koji je zamišljen kao izmjena uloga i mogućnosti javnih prostora, galerija postaje suprotnost ulici i heterotopija – privremeni, izolovani prostor, radikalno različit od svoje okoline. Suštinski, takva heterotopija predstavlja materijalizaciju potencijala javnog prostora i onoga što bi on mogao biti kada bismo se zaista usudili da ga koristimo.
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About the Exhibition
"And what can I tell you?", is one of the few graffiti written in Sarajevo's Hrasno neighborhood. This graffiti is a quip that, consciously or unconsciously, opens several positions. On the one hand, the subjective position of the unknown author, who reproduces the frequent replica of apolitical, lethargic, but also hopeless. On the other hand, it functions as a self-referential question that arises when the wall and the graffiti become one: what and why can the walls speak to us?
This last question is the backbone of the experimental and participatory project "#". The Manifesto Gallery has been transformed into a space of free, uncontrolled, and uncensored expression. Dozens of people who took part in this participatory project became graffiti artists, writers, and street artists, and their traces on the walls of the gallery grew from an author's work into a collective and anonymous work.
Through this project, which is conceived as an alternation of roles and possibilities of public spaces, the gallery becomes the counterpart of the street and heterotopia - a temporary, isolated space, radically different from its surroundings. Essentially, such a heterotopia represents the materialization of the potential of public space and what it could be if we truly dared to use it.