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U3 | Jasmina Cibic: The Pavilion
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Jasmina Cibic

The Pavilion

Video, 6:43 min, 2015

 

Jasmina Cibic’s latest video installation The Pavilion presents an experimental documentary moving image work, which attempts to reconstruct the image of the Pavilion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia built in Barcelona for the 1929 World Exposition.

 

This temporary structure was designed by the Serbian architect Dragiša Brašovan and according to legend, received the first prize at the Exposition. Due to political intrigue it subsequently lost its first place to the German Pavilion and its architect Mies Van der Rohe. Cibic attempts to retrace the building’s design through institutional and private archives, reconstructing a model of the original in a 1:7 scale.

 

Through the jarring linkage of a building that was to represent a nation state, one that was supposed to house exotic sexualised desire and a vehicle of national military control, The Pavilion points to the optics of authoritarian construction of towers of control and their soft power mechanisms.

 

Narrated by: Eva Pope

Performed by: Dragana Alfirević, Teja Reba, Jelena Rusjan, Katarina Stegnar and Tina Valentan

Written and directed by: Jasmina Cibic

Curatorial advisor: Gordana Nikolić

Director of photography: Nejc Saje

Additional camera: Tomaž Gorkič

Steadycam: Matevž Zupanc

Costume supervision: Sanja Grcić

Art department: Mateja Šetina

Carpentry: Andrej Zavodnik

Gaffer: Gašper Kocjančič

Floor manager: Luka Curk

Catering: Denis Dautovič

Make-up: Nathalie Horvat

Hair: Sonja Murgelj

Editor: Michelle Deignan

On-line editor and colourist: Sue Giovanni

Recording engineer: Lee Slater

Produced by: Waddington Studios London

Filmed at Španski Borci Cultural Centre Ljubljana

Commissioned by: MSUV, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad.

Thanks to: Museum of Yugoslav History, Miloš Jurišić, Museum of Science and Technology Belgrade and Una Popović.

 

©Jasmina Cibic 2015

Part of the project Performing the Museum, an international project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

 

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London based Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”. Her recent projects and exhibitions include solo shows “Building Desire”, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, “Tear Down and Rebuild” Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; “Spielraum”, MGLC Ljubljana; “The Nation Loves It”, Ludwig Museum Budapest; group exhibitions “Demented Architecture”, City Gallery Wellington; “Heroes We Love”, UGM Slovenia; The Possibility of an Island, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art Contemporain Geneva; solo exhibition “Fruits of Our Land”, SAW Gallery Ottawa; group exhibitions at Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg; 3oth International Graphics Biennial Ljubljana; “October Salon”, Belgrade; “U3 – 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art”, MSUM, Ljubljana; Dokfest - Kulturbahnfhof, Kassel; Joanneum Museum Graz; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana; Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana. Cibic’s films have recently been screened at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; KORO Oslo; Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris; Copenhagen International Documentary Festival and the Cinema Program at Art Brussels.

 

Web pagewww.jasminacibic.org