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.