A solo presentation by Ana Čvorović curated by Sasha Craddock, Wellcome Collection.
Commentary by Sacha Craddock:
Čvorović’s sculpture releases the power of association in the way it manages to play with suggestions of comfort as well as discomfort. By using a strange, distorted hint at precarity, the artist manages to construct, and combine, an inevitable mixture of fact and fiction. With elements scaled up and down, with the delight of display alluding to gain, as well as ultimate loss, Čvorović points out, however, and yet ultimately withholds, any sense of full explanation. The work hints at the way that the material fact imbedded in a found object, for instance, is folded in with the typical struggle between value and non-value that sculpture will inevitably carry.
Čvorović makes, or suggests, a world within a world that embraces, but then runs away from, any sense of normality. Insisting that as an artist her emphasis is on the outsider, outlander, and outcast, the work can be seen as it were, from the edge of a metaphor without walls. The gaze, which is often inwards, often comes from positions of height, reality, and gravity. The apparently fragile work, however, plays with the unconscious relationship between function and pretense. The fiction, but soon fact, of a manufactured detail, for instance, a fragment of apparent use manufactured repeatedly by the artist, can be sometimes placed near a small painting of horizon and place.
The artist evokes a comprehension of place, a change of scale, all somehow, drawn towards the domestic interior. The inside, seen from outside, alludes perhaps, to a shift in physical and mental understanding. By employing a mimicry that parallels life lived, as well as art experienced, Čvorović always manages to insist that such a range of possibility remains free.
The exhibition runs as a part of the Psychoanalysis and Radical Psychiatry Conference.
