For This Place Is Not Enough to Hold So Much Solitude

Installation, 2023

Tito’s Villa Galeb, Igalo

In the Space for Rest and Recreation, in the blue hall with an empty pool, through whose large window openings there is a view of the Adriatic Sea, this lonely place, a frozen image of an abandoned future, in interaction with the interventions of artists, transforms into an experience of a poetic dystopian landscape that portrays visions of possible outcomes of today's anxieties, as a post-natural, post-memorial, and post-social desert. Intertwining various artistic approaches and media, from sculpture, poetry, archival records, experiments with sound, and social rituals, the story For This Place Is Not Enough to Hold So Much Solitude emerges—a science fiction hallucination about the world as a lonely desert, the outcome of the mindless gallop of the greedy capitalist machinery born out of humanity's fantasy of possession.

Inside glass laboratory vials are pigments, archival material, and samples from the same terrain, which are alternately activated, pulsating, and enhancing the impression of fragility on a laboratory shaker. Microorganisms taken from natural habitats, through their own extinction, transform into pigments that become applicable on fragile glass materials containing family archival material.

This multimedia spatial installation proposes a perspective preoccupied with absence, as it focuses on a territory relevant to the author that no longer holds the same meaning or significance.