The Crisis of Representation in Contemporary Art
The Crisis of Representation in Contemporary Art

Summary/Abstract: The portfolio is connected with the artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid and their exhibition titled RADICAL CONTEMPORANEITY. Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid: 35 years of work revisited (1982–2017), at Kunstraum (Art space) Lakeside in Klagenfurt, Austria. The curator of the show was Aneta Stojnić, and it was on view from Mid-May to Mid-July 2017. Stojnić defines radical contemporaneity, as “highly performative in the sense of producing a specific impact in the current socio-political reality, their mode of production is prompted by the sharp and accurate sense of the contemporary context that gives each of the works a specific account of what we will call radical contemporaneity. This means that not only have they been working with boiling political questions, but they kept dealing with them as they are happening, always taking the risk to provide analyses of traumatic presents, conscious of a historic momentum yet with a clear understanding of the processes of historicization.”

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