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UNTITLED (SHADES) artist book (produced and published by Browsing copy, Singapore), 165 x 114 mm, offset print 2019
This artist book conflates multiple formats (play, poetry and choreographic score) to explore visceral nature of the gaze. In six steps it leads the reader through a landscape of memories and poetic reflections preoccupied with the act of seeing and the embodied politics it implies. Each step appeals to the reader to challenge their point of view in regard to the book, themselves and their environment. As if existing outside of this book characters and letters throw shade on its pages. Alongside sparse drawings and images, they interrupt and complicate the narrative.
Nina Djekić is a Slovenian artist and choreographer based in Amsterdam. Having formal training in choreography, her practice revolves around notions of movement and embodiment as entangled with language. Spanning various mediums; performance, print, installation, video and sound, Djekić’s practice approaches language as more than just a vessel to propel choreographic thought but as what actively shapes such thought as well. Recently her research has extended to explore vocabularies with potential to breech distance between the human and botanical ontologies. Finding inspiration in situated folk knowledge, various forms of incantations and speculative fictions with focus on feminine-botanical kinship. Her work has been presented in exhibitions as well as performance contexts and book fairs in both Europe and abroad (Frascati Theatre, Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Dolores), starch, NTU CCA, Singapore Art Book Fair).
