Nikola Dimitrovic

Home, Sweet Home II

Floor installation made of sugar; dimensions infinite
From Solo Show ”The Favored” w/ Kemil Bekteši, Contemporary gallery Subotica 2023; Curated by Nela Tonković
The monumental floor installation “Home, sweet home II” uses the form of a well-known object, the crocheted milieu, to raise questions about transience and permanence. The very use of the form of an object that our time most often perceives as a superfluous, decorative object without any function, but which has not yet become a mere memory, points to the placement of this work in the corpus of those that examine the efemerall borders of the present and the past.
The crochet, namely, is a kind of reminder of the past in which women used the rest of their time to do manual work – completely unproductive from today’s perspective, except for the number of crochets left over from a time that did not know the concept of wellness.
The crochet, namely, is a kind of reminder of the past in which women used the rest of their time to do manual work – completely unproductive from today’s perspective, except for the number of crochets left over from a time that did not know the concept of wellness.
Dimitrović monumentalizes precisely that neglected, unwanted object in order to confront us with impermanence as one of the basic forms of modern life. The object rendered in sugar on the floor is completely unprotected and vulnerable to the point of vanishing. Man’s place in the world today, it’s home, faces the same threat.

Nela Tonković
curator at Contemporary gallery, Subotica

Installation view: “Home, Sweet Home II”
From Solo show “The Favored” w/ Kemil Bekteši , Contemporary Gallery Subotica 2023, Curated by Nela Tonković
Photo by Edvard Molnar
Courtesy of the artistt
Installation view: “Home, Sweet Home II”
From Solo show “The Favored” w/ Kemil Bekteši , Contemporary Gallery Subotica 2023, Curated by Nela Tonković
Photos by Edvard Molnar and Luka Milanovic
Courtesy of the artistt