Sara Salamon
installations and public space intervention
2020 — 2023
collaborators: Hrvoje Spudić (programming & production of objects) and Marko-Luka Zubčić (text & drammaturgy)
Artist statement:
Archaeological excavations begin as a mobile public installation that appears as a false promise in Zagreb’s neighborhoods and slowly moves one meter per day. In the past three years, they have undergone transformations in different cities and translations in the media and exhibition spaces.
The first “excavation” was inspired by a journalistic article from The Guardian “’Millennia of human activity’: heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites” in which, ironically, English tourism and historical research are flourishing under climate change and thermal warming that reveals buildings under the green grass.
Can space perform? The resulting works articulate an unstable atmosphere and tension in the relationship between the observer, space, objects and materials.
The unstable atmosphere refers to the performativity of exhibition objects and installations, which most often perform barely perceptibly in front of the audience.
Events outside or on the edge of the “frame”, simultaneously temporality and incessant flow, mix humor and anxiety in us. “Archaeological Excavations” deal with the “promises” and “uncertainty” of the past and future - playing with the perception of a missed event through interventions in public or gallery space.
The exhibition space becomes a field of translation of signs taken from the public space; in it, artistic documentation abandons thetestimony. Then I stage translations of translations, forcing the materials to perform, that is, take “unattainable” or “opposite” forms.
---
2. Exhibitions, objects and slow mobile ambient:
wooden object, sand, light, mobiles, construction materials, arduino, photography flashes, textile, resin, paper, solenoid, fense
2021 - 2023
1.Public space interventions: Moving objects and light
Vienna, 2022:
Zagreb, 2020:
Prehistoric monuments and settlement near Eynsham, Oxfordshire, have become visible during the hot summer.Photograph: Damian Grady/Historic England
---
Exhibitions:
- 10/06/2023 — 22/07/2023 — Archeological Excavations One, Two and Three / Apoteka - Space for Contemporary Art, Vodnjan
- 06/10 — 28/10/2022 — Life Is Full of Meaning / Galerija Filodrammatica, Drugo more, Rijeka
- 27/04 — 19/06/2022 — 37th Youth Salon, curators Kućća, Zagreb
- 08/04 — 24/04/2021 — Archeological Exchavation / solo exhibition Galerija VN, Zagreb
- 18/10 — 06/11/2021 — Llamar o tocar a la puerta / group exhibition Galerija Kortil, Rijeka