UNSUCCESSFUL - The Imperceptible Rise of Perversely Peaceful Jokers

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Edicola Radetzky is happy to announce its collaboration with Contemporary Attitude presenting UNSUCCESSFUL - The Imperceptible Rise of Perversely Peaceful Jokers, a solo show by Serbian artist Sanjeshka.

The exhibition will open on 2.06.2020 with a performance from 11 am to 9 pm

A closed-off interior, seen from the outside.
Typical curtains of the Milanese balconies, green or green + white striped curtains hide an interior that probably houses an unsuccessful individual. Sanjeshka interchanges the two words “Joker” and “Worker”, using either one or the other, as if to say the same thing.

A worker / joker, that has all the possibilities of contemporary society but chooses to confine himself to a small warm room.

Is it depression or choice? The symptoms might look the same.
These interiors are not associated with the fresh-new-hyper-society of achievement and self-exploitation, but with failure - with the unburdened and the hidden. 

Who hangs green curtains in Milano?

Sanjeshka’s previous work and performance involves ASMR readings of books and notes, which further emphasize an environment that under-produces but generates thought.

Her work stems from contemporary philosophy and poetry, in particular from the work of Byung Chul Han.

--> The Opening / Live and Online Performance
June the 2nd, from 11 am to 9 pm

The opening of the exhibition at Edicola Radetzky on June the 2nd, turns into a ten-hour performance, from 11 am to 9 pm.

Sanjeshka will inhabit the exhibition space as a domestic space. She will perform intimate acts, each of them representing the expansion of the artist's daily practices.

A constant interaction with visitors of the exhibition and online users will be possible via a continuous internet live stream and posts to different social media networks during the entire duration of the performance.

Just like in the artist's latest works, the performance will contain various stages and layers, one of which is her interpretation of the technique of ASMR, that in the artist’s words <<brings care and empathy through the encounter with intellectual pleasures.>>

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BIO

Sanjeshka (Sanja Pupovac) is a Serbian artist born in Zadar, ex - Jugoslavija in 1983. She lives and works in Milano. Picking up from what seems to be a pathological landscape of social disorders, Sanjeshka contextualizes her work between old europe and new technology. The themes that charge her work are: the intimacy of the internet, poetry and language of the millennials, humor as a mirror and synthesizer, excess of positivity, art after art, mise-en-scene, cemeteries. She studied at the Politecnico di Milano, where she now teaches. Her career begins in the design field and progressively crosses over to art.

Contemporary Attitude is a contemporary art platform that focuses its research on the relationship between art and fashion. Since January 2019, numerous artists are involved in the design and production of clothes and accessories, artworks, wearable sculptures. Recent evolutions of the project include the creation of an online archive dedicated to sculptural objects and wearable artworks, leading to a categorization of the artistic research and its relationships with fashion into a practice always present in the artistic language.