Experimental:
The Netherlands project_2018
A half-hour experimental film created in the Netherlands
in 40 days of February and March 2018.
Statistics: 40 days, 7 cities, 5 apartments, 3 houses, 10
people, 2 cats, and 1 dog.
Staying in the Netherlands was exclusively within the
frameworks of Couch Surfing, an alternative travel application. On average,
every third day you are in the new bed of a new city, so your journey is not
where you want, but where you are wanted to be. From luxurious houses to social
housing, from French beds, through the shared ones, to sleeping on the mattress
on the floor of an unfinished bedroom, getting to know the most diverse people,
by age, professional or ethnic category, you are in a boundless field of
openness and constant adaptation to a new new.
The key link in the movie is the performance that,
without knowing of my hosts, I perform in their personal spaces when they are
at work, sleeping or taking a shower, trying to show the state of mind in which
I am at the moment.
Everything will be fine_2019
Video performance created on IVA.lab (inter video action)
residency in Pozega.
I used to say this sentence even to my dying father when
both of us knew it is not going to be fine, far from it. This work is a clear
reflection of my current state of mind, more than anything I needed comfort,
someone to tell me that everything is going to be fine. I decided to ask people
from different countries to tell me in their language what they would say to a
friend that has a difficult time, something comforting. While watching me going
from the urban zone of the city to a more remote and peaceful place, trying
to find hope and beauty, you can hear
that everything will be fine in Lithuanian, Czech, Greek, Cantonese, Urdu,
Hebrew, German, French, Indian, Nigerian, Croatian, Montenegrian, Spanish,
Portuguese, and Russian. This helped me, it gave me the hope that I needed, but
even more than that, I couldn't stop imagining some lonely Lithuanian in France
watching this work, what is the chance?!
Puzzle_2020
Experimental video made in collaboration with dancer Aleksandar Popov and narrator Ana Benavent.
This work is a visual representation of dance in combination with poetry. From the start, I knew that I want to do something with Aleksandar but I didn't want to create just a beautiful video of someone dancing, I needed some narrative. While filming I was reading Spanish contemporary poetry and one poem fit perfectly for this project.
Portrait of anonymous artist_2020
Experimental documentary in collaboration with my mother
Existentialism:
Departure_2017
How to be part of a time where there is no time for you.
Departure is the product of a long process of feeling the inability to change
the place of life, a place that makes you unhappy, but you are firmly attached
to it, almost inextricably. This work does not give hope, but it calls for
action, alarms you to fight for a better tomorrow.
And so on…_2018
The central theme of this work is the burden, the burden
we must or choose to bear, the burden that is part of us, or we are part of that
burden, the burden without which our identity is called into question because
we are burdened, and so on...
Ambitious Sisyphus_2019
Even if you overcome every obstacle, solve every problem,
in the end, everyone dies, so what is the point. If anything positive ever
happened in my life I would understand my optimism, ambition, urge to change
the world, to be good, to do good. Still, I am here, pushing my rock every day.
Identity research:
Second skin_2011
Sometimes we need to take radical actions to liberate
ourselves. This is exactly that, with a big kitchen knife I am cutting the second
skin, skin that grows from the fear and prejudices, from low self-respect.
You are free, but…_2015
First time presented in 2015 as part of the exhibition
during the Belgrade Pride Week. A group of art historians named “Impost” chose
this work to show it as a central work at the exhibition dealing with
stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community in Serbia. In the review about the work,
they said: “Through synthesized messages, this video material leads to better,
more relevant meanings, which in return lead to the determination of LGBTQ+
population. To reach individual and collective awareness, this work creates a
certain theoretical and didactic interaction between the distorted standards of
the local community and defined and correct attitude… It is the passive-aggressive social class who presents itself as tolerant, while
concurrently rejecting a consistent integration of the LGBTQ+ population into
society. The video work is a performative illustration, a somewhat masochistic
way of pulling a sock on top of another, which makes the author hard to
breathe, just like the passive-aggressive statements are compelling LGBTQ+
persons to breathe with difficulty in real life. Clement penetrates specific
knowledge of social psychology applied to solve practical problems of modern
society, such as reducing prejudice and prevention of violence.”
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