Montenegro 2022

Title: The Art Of Holding Hands as we break through the sedimentary cloud
Commissioner: Jelena Božović; Curator: Natalija Vujošević
Exhibitor: Dante Buu, Lidija Delić & Ivan Šuković, Darko Vučković, Jelena Tomašević, Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries (Zuzana Chalupova, Rene Portocarrero, unknown author from Iraq and Bernard Matemera)

The exhibition “The Art of Holding Hands / as we break through the sedimentary cloud“, resembles a sci-fi tale of possible futures, woven through multitemporal and intergenerational views of artists coming from various social and historical contexts, settling in present-day Montenegro.

This story originates in the margins of the “world”, which today we call global capitalism, from the space of acute dystopia of the disintegrated “body” of society, nation, nature, which changes under constant turbulence, influences and shock; it loses its solid membrane and like a scattered cloud of ideologies, histories, landscapes, fears and dreams, it floats in time and space.

Embodying their visions through various media, from painting and installation to adopting ritual approaches to handicrafts in their practices, all the way to poetry and archives, the artists show us imagination, the healing potential of art that is conceived in, and despite, the post-social desert.