Living Water/ Exhibition/ Moise Palace

Living Water

"They said, water is life and renewal: I grow because rains water me and the sea nourishes me. They said: water is cleansing and renewal, reception, the symbolism of baptism, purity. They said that water is depth, waves that immerse me but also nourish me with air, when I catch my breath in the golden glimmer of the eye. In the thirteenth century, in Persia, lived the poet Rumi. His words were: 'You are not just a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a single drop.'

In each of us, in every individual life, there are countless oceans. Each with its own story, its chromosomal arrangement, and its entirety. Every water, like bubbles reflecting in Bojana Vuksanović's ceramics, connects, separates with other bubbles, and extends its roundness towards closeness. Intertwined with each other, we long for closeness, yet heavy and sluggish because equally burdened by our past, our nostalgias from times when we only breathed in waters and floated protected, we await life to happen.

Thank you, Bojana, for the reminder. We are here to receive your gift."

Sanja Bojanić, professor at the Academy of Applied Arts and executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Rijeka.

About the author

Bojana Vuksanović is a chartered member of Royal Institute of British Architects [RIBA], member of Rijeka Architects Association [DAR] and Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts [ULUPUH].

She graduated architecture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2003 and holds a postgraduate degree in architecture from ECA, studied at Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona [ETSAB] in 2005. Prior to that, she studied architectural engineering in London.

After years spent abroad, she currently lives on the island Cres, working as architect and designer and creates in medium ceramics. She has previously worked for Studio Daniel Libeskind, Berlin, JM Architect, Edinburgh, Reiach and Hall Architects, Edinburgh, Great Britain. She has freelanced for Cloud-9, Barcelona, Media-Tic project, Icosis Architects, Edinburgh, Zeroarchitecture, Italy, Underground City XXI, Croatia.

Exhibitions:

2022 "Geometry of Nature" Museum of Cres/ solo exhibition
2021 "Genius Loci" Museum of Cres/ solo exhibition
2020 - 2021  3rd Biennale of industrial art, Rijeka ECoC 2020, “Dock Culture”, Moise palace, Cres/ solo exhibition
2020 Biennale exhibition “Art - Eco / Forest”, gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
2017 HDD gallery of Croatian Design Association, Zagreb/ solo exhibition
2016 HUIU gallery Pula/ solo exhibition
2016 Days of architecture in Istria, L.A.E. XXI Undeground city, Lamparna, Labin

Živa Voda

“Rekli su, voda je život i obnova: rastem jer me zalijevaju kiše i hrani more. Rekli su: voda je čišćenje i obnova, primitak, simbolika krštenja, čistoća. Rekli su da je voda dubina, valovi koji me potapaju ali i hrane zrakom, kada u zlatnom odsjaju oka ulovim dah. U trinaestom stoljeću, u Perziji je živio pjesnik Rumi. Njegove su riječi: „Nisi tek kaplja u oceanu, cijeli si ocean u jednoj kaplji.“

U svakome od nas, u svakom pojedinačnom životu, bezbrojno je oceana. Svaki sa svojom pričom, svojim kromozomskim rasporedom i svojom cjelinom. Svaka voda, poput mjehurića koji se zrcale u keramikama Bojane Vuksanović, spaja se, razdvaja s drugim mjehurićima i pruža svoju oblost ka bliskom. Upućeni jedni na druge, žudimo za bliskim a opet teški i tromi jer jednako opterećeni svojim prošlim, svojim nostalgijama u vremenima kada smo samo u vodama disali i zaštićeno plutali, čekamo da se dogodi život.

Hvala, Bojana, na podsjećanju. Tu smo, kako bismo primili tvoj dar.”

Sanja Bojanić, profesorica Akademije primijenjenih umjetnosti i predstojnica Centra za napredne studije, Sveučilišta u Rijeci.

O autorici:

Bojana Vuksanović Članica je Kraljevskog Instituta Britanskih Arhitekata [RIBA], Društva arhitekata Rijeka [DAR] i Hrvatske udruge likovnih umjetnika primjenjenih umjetnosti [ULUPUH].

Diplomirala je arhitekturu u Edinburghu 2003. godine [Edinburgh College of Art], postdiplomski studij arhitekture završila u Barceloni 2005. [ETSAB] Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.  Od 1993. - 1996. studirala je u Londonu arhitektonski inženjering.

Nakon niza godina provedenih u inozemstvu, posljednjih godina živi na otoku Cresu, gdje se bavi arhitekturom, dizajnom i stvara u mediju keramike. Prije toga radila je za Studio Daniel Libeskind [Berlin], JM-Architects, [Edinburgh], Reiach and Hall Architects, [Edinburgh], te kao vanjski suradnik za Cloud-9, Media-Tic project, [Barcelona], Icosis Architects, [Edinburgh], Zeroarchitecture, [Italy], Underground City XXI, Labin, Hrvatska.

“Living Water”

Palača Moise, otvorenje: 01.08.2023.

Autorica likovnog postava, keramike i fotografija:
Bojana Vuksanović dip. arh. BArch (Hon) RIBA

Organizacija izložbe: Sveučilište u Rijeci, Palača Moise

Za organizatora:
Rektorica prof. dr. sc. Snježana Prijić Samaržija

Tehnička podrška: Andreja Malovoz phd, Tina Perić mag. cult,
Saša ŽivanoviĆ

Grafički dizajn: Bojana Vuksanović dip. arh.

Pokrovitelji: Ministarstvo Kulture, Cresanka d.d.

Tisak: Arskopija, Zagreb

 

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