MILICA TOMIC

VERNISSAGE
this friday: 23 september
19.00 - 21.30

EXHIBITION
23 september - 10 november

Biography
° 1960, Belgrado, Serbia & Montenegro. Lives and works in Belgrado.

About Milica Tomic
If we want to grasp the significance of Milica Tomic´s art, it will be important for us to focus on her artistic procedures. The model of reasoning which Tomic develops for her work is the key: it lends general validity to the topics and content she deals with, thus transcending the respective political occasion and pointing to both past and future. Milica Tomic is concerning with the topics of political violence, nationality and identity as well as the fact that the interlocking of the personal and the political is inevitable in this context. Her method of media critique is analytical in nature, containing an extent of reflection on the means she uses herself that is both structurally inherent and necessary.
As Tomic´s work seeks to grasp the Real by dealing with the reconstruction of history, with memory, she uses video, sound carriers, image projectors in such a way that their respective functions refer back to the media system itself, thus simultanously coming to bear on it as functions of the system of “perception and consciousness” or the system of “denial and unconsciousness” at a meta-psychological level. Staging the recurrence of the trauma, Tomic does not comment from a seemingly neutral “correct” viewpoint, looking inside from the outside, but turns herself into part of the scenario so as to trigger an analytical process from this unstable position that is always also rooted in the imaginary.

Silvia Eiblmayr, introduction to the catalogue "Milica Tomic", Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria

URL Milica Tomic
www.fortlaan17.com/eng/artists/tomic