The exhibition is to take place in autumn 2009, as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad project by Suzana Vuksanovic entitled ‘UPDATE (Are You Ready?): Female artists and their own (female) image’.

Making art is often an obsessive probing into yourself; search for the reasons and possible paths; recognition of characteristics and details at point-blank range; modelling of a micro cosmos of your own personality as well as a whole palette of complex sensibility that creates it. And then, exiting one’s being and observing from distance, with the stranger’s curiosity, placing the discovered insights into a wider context of the instant and surroundings. At the same time one is, both the driver (who chooses and knows the oncoming directions and stops), and the co-driver (being looked at out of the corner of one’s eye yet with great interest and obvious fascination). With no glamour or rapid events, as a movie sequence where the plot is slowed to an action in real time and the camera is out of focus and inquisitive like the eye of an observer in a real situation, the self-portraits appear in agonizing nakedness in relaxed rhythm. The urge to make a travel-coverage out of the whole drive is in the essence of the creative process. There’s a desire for communication - search for the way to share the gathered experience and emotions in the way sincere enough to set you free from accumulated explosive tension (for you are not capable of doing it in the right amount and satisfactory way in everyday communication) and interesting enough not to end up in panicky search for the stage exit, with rotten fruits being thrown at you.

The two slide projections, with photographs changing in different rhythms, are set close enough to each other to be watched simultaneously. They present the dialogue with one’s face framed against the view out of the car window, which is constantly changing. The face selfportraits display is framed with a look out the car window, with the external changing. In various moments, attention is focused to one of the two. Sometimes they are mixed and the line dividing the portrait and the background becomes blurred. Often the exterior is reflected in the face, altering the shadows, creating different mood. The never-ending projections flip the photos in the same order over again. There is a text on the wall near the projections:

‘a journey into yourself and a travel-report
sometimes everything’s a single smudged mess
sometimes it’s the darkness in the vehicle
sometimes everything is good’

No music, no sound.