Wife, mother, housewife… And how about partnership or married life during self-quarantine? Curator Bojana Piškur, PhD, presents a work by Vlasta Delimar, The Wedding (performance, a series of black-and-white photographs, 1982).

“Born in Zagreb in 1956, Vlasta Delimar began her artistic career in the late 1970s, when the conceptual art scene in Yugoslavia was in full swing. Delimar was influenced, among others, by the Group of Six Artists and the artists around the Podroom alternative exhibition space and later the Expanded Media Gallery. She has never accepted interpretations of her work as ‘female’ or ‘feminist’. In her early performances, realized with Željko Jerman, she explored male-female relationships. She also did a series of actions outside art spaces to establish direct contacts with her audience. In the 1980s, Delimar began examining the status of women as social and creative beings, that is, a woman’s many roles of housewife, mother, artist, lover… Her probably best-known performance from that period was based on a true event – her wedding to Željko Jerman. The Wedding starts with the two artists and the audience going to church. After the ceremony, the wedding party goes to the gallery where the reception is being held; there, an exhibition of photographs from the previous civil ceremony has already been installed. Subsequently, photos of the church wedding are also put up.”