Aleksandra Domanović | HIGHER ATLAS

Aleksandra Domanović

Monument To Revolution, 2012
Tadelakt, wood, plaster, concrete

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Aleksandra Domanović’s work is centrally concerned with the circulation and reception of images and information, particularly as they shift meaning and change register as they traverse different contexts and historical circumstances. To this end, she has made works that create strange taxonomies and manic associative chains, poke and prod at copyright laws, unpack the geopolitical implications of web domains, and co-created the ongoing, collaborative exhibition platform vvork.com.

Most recently, Domanović has turned her attention to the complex ways in which image culture and information flows have formed the postwar environment of the former Yugoslavia. In these works, whether she is investigating the phenomenon of what she has dubbed Turbo Sculpture—monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia—constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre- and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into the rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović address the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history though both conviviality and denial.

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