Vanja Bucan

Boscage

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Boscage

 

— Coming soon…

 
For my dear first dimension,
My sole and only dot.
Care to see which trees are clear
And which are clearly knot?

Richard Powers, The Overstory

Dialogues

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Dialogues

 

—work in progress-

 

‘When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’
Reflections on standardised and reductionist perceptions of the human and the non human world that surrounds us.

The Wandering Icebergs

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Art on Ringturm Vienna
‘The Wandering Icebergs’, 2023
Art in public space exposing the climate change paradigm
commissioned by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, Austria

Birds of Paradise

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addresses women’s role as domestic workers and points out the invisibility and devalued routine house work. Women are historically sculpted as housekeepers, a position which did not change throughout history and has been a pillar of patriarchal norms and home economy up to this date.The placement of women in the kitchen, doing unpaid work, is a manifest of economic domination, which is patriarchy’s most powerful tool.

Birds of Paradise (Donne Sole)

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Birds of Paradise (Donne Sole)

 

‘As to washing up! Where can we find a housewife who has not a horror of this long and dirty work, that is usually done by hand, solely because the work of the domestic slave is of no account.’

 

‘The Conquest of Bread’, P. Kropotkin

Concrete Flowers

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Concrete Flowers (work in progress)

 

I visited China in 2019 for the first time.I was inspired by the flow and geometries of concrete streets and everyone I met there.The architecture of space, even if layered with concrete, was very much alive and welcoming.I could still see flowers everywhere.I documented typical urban landscapes and upon return transformed them into a set of personalised ecosystems. We humans witness concrete as building material that divides and pollutes life worldwide, but actually people and all the other living beings always manage to assimilate to it, and make it into a friendlier matter. Concrete flowers means literally something beautiful and organic that grows out of concrete.

One or Two Days of Solitude

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Rt Kamenjak (Cape Kamenjak) is a tiny peninsula of croatian Istria, a place where things happen.

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