FUTURE INHERITANCE

25.03.2021 - 28.03.2021

NGV Melbourne Design Week (exhibition website)

Truce, Collingwood AU

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Curated by Marsha Golemac
 

Many of us inherit objects handed down from generation to generation, some ordinary or banal, some functional, others impractical, and some rare, precious and irreplaceable. Irrespective of their properties, they all carry inherit meaning, having been deemed worthy of preservation and appreciation by us, as individuals. Future Inheritance explores the power of objects, the stories they hold and the ways in which they transfer ideas and values, from one generation to the next. If we were to leave an object behind for a loved one – what would it look like and what is the significance of that object; emotional, historical, cultural or otherwise? Curated by Marsha Golemac, the exhibition showcases the works of 20 artists, with new work commissioned for this exhibition.

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Azbuka rug is a very personal work made reflecting upon my own mixed heritage; the widely forgotten symbols of handwoven carpets in my family’s homeland; and the 1992 slogan of Mladen Stilinović ‘An Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is no Artist’.  

 

So much of cultural understanding hinges on the practice of language, with the alphabet often the first symbols we are formally taught to recognise. While much can be lost between generations, I have chosen to create this tapestry using the same method as those in my family’s homeland – abstracted – depicting their Cyrillic alphabet as symbols to remember or forget.

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