Muzej savremene umjetnosti<br />Republike Srpske

Museum of Contemporary Art
of Republic of Srpska

 

The exhibition of photographs by Nenad Malešević titled "Documents / An Introduction to the Study of Discontinuance" included several series ("A Time of Renewal", "For Goethe's Eyes", "Donau", "Die Pflanzen", etc.), taken in the period 2004 to 2014. "Documents" represents a kind of visual diary.

Malešević argues that his art does not serve to promote any kind of critical or emancipatory practice but that his interests rather lie in documenting as archiving that which is not completely clear or whose meaning has not been fully deciphered, in terms of the structure of manifestation, commonness or uniqueness.

Malešević links that which he observes with that which he (sometimes apocalyptically) imagines, with the gap between the seen and the idealised being the space of the artist’s pleasure. The photograph thus becomes a stage where something can happen unexpectedly. It is the cinematographic quality of the scene/sight that matters to Malešević when taking a photo, not its relation with the truth, and quite often it is as if the selected frames do not belong to reality or are the kind of space in which one can imagine the sequences of a film taking place.

Curator of exhibition: Lana Pilipović

Nenad Malešević (Sarajevo, 1981) graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Arts at the University of Banjaluka in 2004, and completed the Master Programme – Theory of Arts and Media at the Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2008.

He is a co-founder and member of the Protok Centre for Visual Communication (2005-2008) and a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship holder in 2006. He publishes texts in the field of art theory.