| Alenka Spacal: The Hanging |
| Petak, 18 Svibanj 2007 | |
 November 1st,
2006The exhibition of self-portraits by the painter Alenka Spacal opens with a performance during which the author prepares a rope on which the laundry is to be hung out to dry. And through the self-ironising of the palette of various incarnations of her character, done with oil on kitchen cloths, the artist uses the domestic atmosphere (achieved through hanging out the laundry in an art gallery) to bring into focus the relation between the private domain and the public one, as well as between the personal and the political. Alenka Spacal uses a sort of autobiographical method to establish her sovereignity thus raising her voice against the turning the cliché role of the woman as the “other” into an objective one.
The author’s
ambition is to constitute herself as an active artistic persona.
Through her own visual accomplishments she aims to make visible
various marginal identities that are more than anything else
concerned with the concept of gender, at the same time toying with
the ideas of gender, sexuality, race, religion, and various other
motifs to deliver many different presentations of gender thus
transcending the traditional male/female binary division in her
androgynous self-portraits.
The exhibition held
in Dubrovnik was organized by Ženska Infoteka (Women’s Infoteque)
from Zagreb in co-operation with the Lazareti Art Workshop from
Dubrovnik, as a feature presentation of the annual “Women and
Politics” seminar. The exhibition was opened on May 19th
2006 at 7.30 PM, featuring the artist’s performance as the opening
act.            |
