Curtain, first shown in 2008, is revealed in Rotterdam once again after more than ten years. Simply there, a curtain hangs in the exhibition space, giving no indication of action. We are denied an explanation as its performative character manifests shortly, with a thud of a water pump being activated. The curtain is made of polyvinyl fabric, a specific type of textile that once in contact with water contorts, deforms, to finally evaporate and disappear completely.
From Petra Vidović’s text Sediments: “The idea of the curtain is common, it has its dramatic connotations that irresistibly call to mind Polonius and Dorian, but in the case of Vujičić’s Curtain it isn’t hiding anything, it is here for itself, its own derivative. During the exhibition, Curtain does not exist, only the spent remains of its being are visible. The disappearance of the work is a better solution for the artist than its completion: a finished work is Vujičić's biggest misgiving.”
Silvio Vujičić (HR)
Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist and fashion designer whose work engages with themes such as clothing fetishes, sexual identity, painting pigments, gardens, poisonous and psychoactive substances, death and transience. He works across the media of printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, marked by processes of material transformation through emergence and disappearance. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb. Since 2002 he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan, USA), including the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing (2011, 2014); Digiark, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005, 2009, 2012); Platform3 – Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich (2010); Device_art, Zagreb – San Francisco – Tokyo (2004, 2006, 2010). His works are included in museum and private collections in Croatia and internationally: Lauba and MSU in Zagreb, Albertina in Vienna, and FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou. He is the recipient of the 8th Croatian Triennial of Graphics Award (2019) and the 40th Youth Salon Award in Zagreb (2006).
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