Slavica Janeslieva 

         ... Letters, 1998...



 
Photoaquatint, etching, stencil, hair, plastic foil, self-adhesive foil; 5m. x 1m., (sixty objects, each 14cm. x 14cm.).
 

...The reconstruction of the past of members of the family is not only a chronicle of their partings and travels, but also a long intersubjective "letter" written by the artist herself as an anamnesis of the presences and the absences of particular individuals who communicated with each other inevitably over a spatial distance. Distance in time, on the other hand, enables her to simulate a possible version of the events and the relationships, and even the handwriting ...

Text by Suzana Milevska

 

 

...Approaching closer to the small size prints (12cm x 12cm), the viewer is taken, step by step, in the content of these "letters": old photographs, manuscripts, persons, feelings, emotions, memories, distant past. Than, it becomes recognizable that the viewer is, actually, taken not in the physical space, but in the "space" of the artist's personality. The handwritings, the smiles, the size (of the prints) - everything becomes touchable...

Text by Nebojša Vilic