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LUCIJA ROSC
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Lucija RoscWhich objects retain their value and which lose it over time? Archiving, collecting objects, and historicizing past events are subjective processes, in spite of historical sciences and their claims of objectivity. This is even more inherent in our making sense of our own past. "Growing up" means that we have to go through the process of confirmation or rejection, we all have to discard or save the objects of our childhood and thus make a final judgment of their value. In this process, nostalgia and sentimentality prevent us from being objective, and old junk can be an invaluable souvenir. It is in the role of the latter that objects appear in the works of Lucija Rosc, who in her photographs and objects depicts a world of seemingly random or completely non-functional objects, which on closer inspection reveal that they are the result of meticulous collecting and archiving of things from her childhood. A bouncy ball, a jump rope, or a lone bocce ball finds its way into her artistic practice as they sneak into her sculptures as fragments of the past. Through her work, Rosc invites us home, to a collection of items that her grandparents also collect - dishwashing sponges that have served their usefulness, witnesses of a generation that doesn't throw things away as easily as we do today. She places such "collections" in front of the photographic lens in her recognizable style and combines them in playful dialogues between the past and the present.
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In contrast to their anti-consumer content, however, the aesthetic impression of her photographs is almost that of advertising and in many respects akin to marketing photography. The attractiveness of vivid colours and the advertising exposure of the objects, on the one hand, draw attention to the deceptiveness of such photography, in which the impact is more important than the advertised thing itself that has no market value whatsoever. On the other hand, it draws attention to the importance of these objects, to their high sentimental dimension for the artist. Her lively backgrounds and dizzying compositions are an allusion to children's play that is the background of all of her works. Even with the arrangement for the photo itself, playing with things is a key element that gives the compositions the impression of randomness. In otherwise abstract compositions, children's toys and other domestic objects often literally sneak in. Through them, Rosc explores the possibility of reconciling the past and the present. She includes them in compositions with more modern materials that highlight the contrasts between domestic and foreign, natural and artificial, past and present. Her works are the artist's attempt to incorporate a part of children's play into her adult life - at the same time with the act of artistic creation, which by combining seemingly incompatible materials and non-functional objects is in itself playful, and on the other hand also with the content, by putting children's toys and homework on a pedestal, like art. This is how, through different photographic series, she tells the same story - about growing up, home and new meanings of old things.
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LUCIJA ROSC: GAMES
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