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video: Ivan Slipčević

 “Known to many – unknown to some – the Sava’s waterfalls are a magnificent sight. Landfills of construction materials are scattered into the river, thus creating torrents. It’s not so bad; the river-bed is strengthened with recycled materials. A lone fisherman tries to catch a few toxic fish – just for sports. The visual sensation is accompanied by an olfactory one. There is the nearby city dump Jakuševec as well as the sewage emptying into the Sava some 50 meters downstream from the future recreational centre. (…)

“Recreation flood” is part of the project “Cursed Dam”, a sort of “narrative in progress”. It is a story based on the actual event when a dam breached in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it revolves around the faith of the heroes Tarik and Merima. The part of the narrative is materialized as a one-time video installation and verbal performance on the bank of the river Sava, under the Bridge of Freedom, as a “dystopic vision of the future based on our current reality on the “borders”. Economy, ecology, solidarity, the EU at the doorstep, and that river also divides the new from the old...” (LR)

Lala Raščić was born in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1977. She graduated in Zagreb at the Academy of Fine Arts after which she spent two years in Amsterdam at the Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten. She participated in a number of international artist-in-residence programmes, among others Platform Garanti, Istanbul, in 2005. Her works were part of numerous exhibitions in her home country and abroad, recent of which are the solo-exhibitions “Everything is connected” UGBiH, Sarajevo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb, “Individual Utopias”, OKC Abrašević, Mostar, B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb, KC Gallery, Beograd, and group exhibitions “No Borders, Just N.E.W.S.”, La Centrale Electrique, Brusselles, “Land of Human Rights”, <rotor> Center for Contemporary Art, Graz, “Youth Salon/Salon of the Revolution”, HDLU, Zagreb, “Looking at Others”, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Espacio Grupo Forja, Valencia, Edinburgh Art Festival, The Kitchen, New York, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. She won the award “Zvono” in 2006 for best young artist of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and won the direct purchase award for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2007 with her work “Everything is connected”. The artist bases her work on radio dramas and includes video, script, performance, installation and drawing, resulting in seemingly humorous works which are critical towards contemporary society and her own surroundings.