Nadija Mustapić's exhibition "Place of Impact" in the Kortil Gallery
Kortil Gallery announces the exhibition Place of Impact by artist Nadija Mustapić, which opens on Thursday, December 5 at 7 p.m. As part of the exhibition, the artist interweaves two video works - The threat from beyond (2015) and Here and there (2019) - uniting them into a unique whole. Through extended audio-visual documentary in the gallery space, he creates an immersive sensory experience by combining moving images and ambient sounds and author's texts.
NADIJA MUSTAPIĆ, "THE THREAT BEYOND", 2015.
Anamarija Batista, author of the foreword to the exhibition, states: "Extracting text and sound clips from video works and tying them into a new narrative whole is one of the artist's main methodological approaches when connecting two works." Placed as hanging vertical banners, the texts follow the spatial framework of the Kortil Gallery, cutting and delimiting it at the same time. They guide the choreography of movement and reading of the new whole. On top of all that, they create new spatial and conceptual relationships with the visual and sound elements of the exhibition... In the texts, issues of freedom, change, one's own feeling and attitude, departure and belonging are thematized. Within her poetic expression, the artist manages to create a dialectical framework for thinking about space in the context of social events and individual observations.
Nadija Mustapić is an artist from Rijeka and a full professor at the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of Rijeka. It explores the multidimensional relationships of space through spatial video/audio installations, bringing together subjective and political aspects of place through extended audio-visual documentary. With more than 40 independent and 80 group exhibitions, festivals and screenings in Croatia and abroad, he realizes independent and collaborative art projects that emphasize the phenomenological experience of the viewer.
The last exhibition of the year in the Kortil Gallery will remain open until December 28 , and can be viewed on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.