crochet sculpture
curator: Farah Hasanbegović
Crochet - wool, cotton, eyeshadow, blush
An artifact recovered in three stages of use.
Produced as part of a practice taken on as a way to relieve physical symptoms of anxiety, the work is an effort to extract, embody and articulate the artist’s fears about the permanence of change. In the mythology of the artist’s homeland, there is a goddess that sits on a person’s heart and, over time, weighs it down until it breaks. A practical way to confront this issue would be to somehow occasionally inspect one’s heart, but as with all medical examinations, the test can be too early or late to catch something, or the affliction can be invisible to the human eye. This presentation of the work does not insist on a strict linear progression between different stages of the artifact, instead leaving it up to the viewer to pick an order in which to read and reflect on each stage. The same goddess responsible for crushing the heart is also the goddess of rebirth.
Inhabiting exists in dialogue with an entity that appears in the work Ribs (2022), and is a part of an ongoing artistic research into the genetic and cultural inheritance of trauma.
Select Exhibition History
KRAK Center (BIH) - Poetry in an Expanded Field, 2023, cur. Adna Muslija
Manifesto Gallery (BIH) - Poetry in an Expanded Field, 2023, cur. Adna Muslija
WHW Collective (Croatia) - What we speak about, 2026, cur. WHW