/ Bosnia and Herzegovina
photography, video art, performance
second prize
A black, abstract, indecipherable form hovers next to the very concrete wreckage of a collapse. Until this stabilizes and becomes legible as a perfect square in perfect balance. Gestalt theories, twentieth-century avant-garde, Yugoslav socialist modernism are recalled in a perspective of profound cultural and intellectual reworking.
Arleta Cehic (1963), born in Serbia and living in Mostar, is an artist engaged on several fronts between sculpture and various offshoots of dance (performance, costume, choreography, teaching). She holds a degree in Sculpture from Mostar and is a member of many art promotion associations. She has three solo exhibitions in Mostar to her credit, and participation in exhibitions in America and Europe, including, in 2023, the 18. Venice Architecture Biennale, Osten art pavillion, Palazzo Albrizzi Cappello. As a citizen of places that have been terrible war fronts in the past decades, her work as a sculptor focuses heavily on the circle, materialized in fleshed-out and fragmentary forms, relics and wreckage that nevertheless retain dignity and solemnity, witnesses of continuity, resistance, synthesis, permanence of life. In the video on view for Map3, a black, abstract, indecipherable form hovers next to the
very concrete wreckage of a collapse. Until this stabilizes and becomes legible as a perfect square in perfect balance. Gestalt theories, twentieth-century avant-garde, Yugoslav socialist modernism are recalled in a perspective of profound cultural and intellectual reworking.