“FINAL 2007! RADOSLAV PUTAR AWARD”, GALŽENICA GALLERY, Velika Gorica, Croatiastyrofoam,plaster, wood, cardboard, 420 x 60 x 60 cm
the Jury of this year’s edition of Radoslav Putar Award consists of five women who have selected four finalists among whom three of them are women
to be minority / isolation
problem of emancipation in hands of emancipated group
on the other hand I apply typically male approach
producing the bust and placing it in the very center of exhibiting space
making it significant, creating it pompous / personality cult, heroism
falic form / totem, symbol of adoring
accentuated male position
title of the work is twofold - can be understood as a macho statement and in the same time it offers constatation of slight panic
usage of colloquial language and slang to stress belonging to the same group
work refers to relations burdened by social, sex and gender, ideological and traditional differences
prejudices
exclusivity of certain groups, intolerance, creating the system of values within those groups
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