VIDEO BARIK

Opening December 10.2009 , 7 pm

PM / Extended Media Gallery

Barrel Gallery, Ring Gallery

10.12. – 13. 12. 2009

Video Barik, a programme of recent video art, although part of the programme of the PM / Extended Media Gallery, was anticipated for the exhibition venues of the Barrel Gallery and the Ring Gallery. It was devised by members of the Council and the curator of the PM Gallery, the objective being to have three days of screening of video works by artists of the younger generation who are not properly and certainly not institutionally represented. The works are screened in a loop without any particular structure, since presentation in free form enables the artists to show their new works irrespective of the financial obstacles of the programme, and lets the public have an insight into recent art production. This manner of presentation is at the same time an attempt to map the current constellation of relations on the local scene and an evasion of the imperatives to discover the new, for the sake of catalysing events on the scene. At the same time, the traps of a thematic determination of the programme were sidestepped, since the artists and their works were directly nominated by members of the PM Gallery Council.

Also to be presented in the framework of the programme is a new work of Kata Mijatovic, in order to avoid the notorious phrase “exhibition of artists of the younger generation”. Kata Mijatovic is a counter-balance and at the same time a fact of generational synergy, thus creating something new on the art scene.

In line with its tradition, with Video Barik, the PM Gallery confirms itself as a platform for the experimentation and presentation of current artistic events and new productions on the domestic scene, the mission being to keep up with the progressive currents and advocate original art projects, particularly those of artists of the younger generation.

Participating artists:

Antonia Begušić (Dubrovnik, 1984)

„Ovo / This”

Duration: 2 min 6 sec

Tonči Gaćina (Split, 1983. )
“Korijeni / Roots”

Duration: 3′ 44”, 2008

Luka Hrgović ( Zagreb, 1986)
“Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam”
2008, HD, 1 min

Ivana Jurić (Osijek, 1982)

” JA / I”

3min 35sec, 2008.

Tihana Mandušić (Split, 1982)

“Being a Woman…”,

12 min and 45 sec, 2009

Martin Mrzljak (Zagreb, 1987 )
“social networking”

shot on subsequently digitalised 16mm film

2 min. 00 sec, 2008

Nives Sertić (Dubrovnik, 1984.)
“IAN AND I”
55’ 28’’, 2007

Kata Mijatović (Branjina, 1956. )

Vrištanje / Shrieking, 2009

seven-channel video installation