Giddy Flames
group show
30.8.24 – 22.9.24
Collegium Artisticum
Terezija bb, Centar Skenderija, Sarajevo
curated by Teuta Jonuzi and Julian Siffert

with
adO-Aptive (Janina Weißengruber & Daniel Hüttler), Teuta Jonuzi, Sebastian Koeck, Lucille Leger, Ana Likar, Fritjof Krabbe Nørretranders, Julian Siffert, Lisa Sifkovits, Kai Philip Trausenegger, Helen Weber, Lulzim Zeqiri

Giddy Flames seeks to be a spatial fantasy. In the absence of daylight, it unfolds an imagined collection of stories that seep out of infrastructure, storage spaces, and hijacked light systems. As characters, architectures, spatial cues, or interfaces, the works occupy and transform the extended exhibition space into a set of sceneries. Their spatial dramaturgy guides one through a blur of real and dream-like sites. One passes through rural and urban environments, open and enclosed spaces, a cave, archival storage facilities, dinner parties, war zones, and ghostly gatherings. A single turned-on ceiling light seems to echo a clearing in a forest. All other light is carried by the works themselves, giving each scenery its ambiance. Giddy Flames refers to the architecture and history of both the exhibition space and Privredni Grad or Trade City, the underground shopping mall that hosts it. Well past its prime, most of its stores seem to be abandoned or closed, echoing the twilight grey of the show’s dimly lit scenery. The exhibition follows an idea of a magical place, hidden in the dark and forgotten corners of this relict of 20th-century architecture—a place where things follow a different logic. The shopping mall is located in the center of Skenderija, a cultural, sports, and trade center since 1969 in Sarajevo.

Supported by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport Austria (BMKÖS), Bildrecht, the Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo, Ku(rz)nsthalle, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo and the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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