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2009. 10m [Fear of Courage]

    During our life time we come across various turning-points. Some we call "troubles", some "challenges".

    These are relatively short moments, in which we need to give a decision about something we haven come across to so far. There's always some new, unknown situation that puts us in a position of "making a decision".

    No meter if what we "decide" make us stronger or we experience fall, they stay as key points. We do not forget them, they build our experience, character, identity. In which moment do we become brave and in which do we wish the ground under our feet to "open"? What is the thing that force us to be brave?

    Few times in life I was referred as being brave. Am I? How? Why? Is there a specific situation in which the fear only becomes stronger, so that it "sets its own conditions"; fear of failure, fear of public embarrassment, of lethargic life, fear of death and so on.., depending on a situation. Do we become brave when some other fear overcomes us?

    In video work "10m" I have put myself in a situation of suspense. I am standing in a swimming suite, on the edge of the diving platform, 10 meters above the public swimming pool. This situation symbolically represents one of the intense moments after which we go further as winners, or we go down by stairs...

    The video work is shown on the wall of minimum 3m wide, so that every little detail of my movements, face gestures and breading can be visible. In is followed by not so loud sound of breading and the noise of the public pool. Video goes in loop like this, by freezing this moment of uncertainty and suspense: will I jump, or not... Which one of the fears will form my decision?..

Exhibited in:

2010. "Views", video installation, Gallery 73, Belgrade