Sara Salamon
intervention into architectural elements of exhibition space
electric motor, styrofoam, paint,
395 x 30 x 30 cm,
2025
collaborators: Hrvoje Spudić (production of motorized system and cnc modeling)
curator: Ksenija Orelj
photography: Hrvoje Franjić
In the Museum’s space, I have installed a false col- umn, or a replica of a column, The Colunm, which slowly rotates around its axis. It stands here as an ambient and architectural lie. My wish is to explore the boundaries between function and fiction; the (in)stability of an event at the edge of the frame.
This “fictionalization of function” raises a question: what truly sustains the structures that we trust? Do we trust our intuition that something is awkward in this room?
Text by Ksenija Orelj:
“(...) This sculptural replica presents itself in three roles: as an intruder, a host, and a guest, with a clear premise that perfect integration is not possible. The allusion to parasitic structures, favored by the artist, is based on the idea of media betrayal, where “different media, working processes, and even the materials themselves serve to transmit information that go against their primary function.” Seen this way, the parasitic structure acts as an intervention within the system, similar to white noise or error in communication. In this exhibition space, it functions as a fraud — an ambient forgery that, in the context of a culture of disinformation strategies, reminds of the infiltration of fake news into various domains and physical spaces. We all fall for this boom of fake things and twisted reality, which is how disinformation effect materializes in Sara’s sculpture. We are all struggling to find balance in the flood of images, trying to protect our own worldviews.”
Exhibitions:
- 18/07/2025 — 31/08/2025 — AFTER FIRST, COMES SECOND, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia