Work on Yourself

2023
Performance

CURATORS
Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Mizerit, Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol

EXHIBITION
Art at Work – At the Crossroads Between Utopianism and (In)Dependece

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), 22 Septembar 2022 - 29 January 2023

MUSIC
Zvonimir Dusper Dus, Sheeboom

PHOTO
Dejan Habicht, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

„Work on Yourself” is one of the phrases that characterizes our time. To be competitive in today´s society we must constantly work on our professional education, and at the same time must always be in shape. That is why various forms of exercise, physical and mental, are exceedingly popular – meditation, affirmation excercises, Pilates, working out at the gym, running... In the performance „Work on Yourself”, I perform Pilates exercises. The goal of each exercise is to stage a famous figure from art history: The Crucified Christ, The Discobolus of Myron, The Guernica of Picasso, The Battle of Orgreave of Jeremy Deller – more than 30 figures in total. Given that leisure – a supposedly pointless and empty waste of time – is no longer desirable, I am simultaneously educating myself as an artist and working on my physical fitness. Of course, with a hammer and sickle still in my hands. Because I am working.