Irena Lagator Pejović
works
- Lines, Values, Coexistences
- United Species
- Means that Can Contribute to the Phytoremediation of Polluted Areas
- Saved Books. The Art of Transmitting the Knowledge Without the Need for Subsequent Reparation.
- “I Would Put All Mighty Weaponry Into the Museums That No One Visits”
- Expanses of Love
- “If I Were Ronald Regan”
- Nets, Nodes, Horizons
- Workers University
- My Father’s Salary
- Fiscal Verses. Reprogramming the Machine
- Missing Content
- The Knowledge of the Limited Responsibility Society
- Shared Air
- Blurred Landscapes
- There is Already a Feeling of a Flow
- Symbiotic Collection
- Maximum Profit - Minumum Time
- This is Not a Landscape Any Longer. Tolerance, Transparency, Transition.
- Nature Culture
- Pillars and Horizons
- Where is the Monument?
- Forward Play Reverse
- Life and Institution
- Capital Culture Cuts
- Two Safes. No keys!
- Non LLC l.l.c.
- Plastic Water
- Society and Documents
- Exchange Value
- Work in Public Space
- Institution Nature
- LLC versus Non LLC
- Abbandoned Cinema
- Freedom Security Progress
- Occupying/Liberating Space and Time
- Directions
- Image Images
- Property
- Dissapearance Appearance
- Further than Beyond
- Image Think
- Ecce Mundi
- Camera Imaginata. The Means for Exchanging the Power of the Imagination
- Means for Intensifiying a Sense of Poetic Reconstruction of the World
- The Society of Peaceful Coexistence, Santa Croce sull’Arno
- Installation for Improving the Sense of Responsibility
- Equation Function
- Limited Responsibility Society, Santa Croce sull’Arno
- Resistence Reservoir
- Limited Responsibility Society, Polignano a Mare
- Limited Responsibility Society Automatism
- Experience Economy History
- The Society of Peaceful Coexistence, Belgrade
- Responsitorium Horizon Poems
- Time of Limited Responsibility Society
- Limited Responsibility Society Experiment, Salzburg
- Present Space Expansion
- Cultural Barriers to Growth
- Continuous Limited Responsibility Society
- Knowledge of the Limited Responsibility Society
- Limited Responsibility Society Experiment, Strobl
- Limited Responsibility Society By Night
- Limited Responsibility Society, Cetinje
- Inverse Spaces
- Our Colored Everyday
- Machine Error. Shape a Book
- What We Call Real
- After Memory
- Next
- Is It Still Winter, Outside?
- The Way We Live
- How Small is the Universe
- Living Space
- The Society of Unlimited Responsiblity
- Own Space
- Living Room
- Near Universe
- An Embrace in the Space
- Light in Space
- Please Wait Here
- Wash Inside Out
- What is Missing
- Temporary Dumping Place. Rotations in the Given Space
- Opening of the Book
- Registrar
- May I Help You
- Passerby
- Are You Happy Now
- BBBBeauty
- Tell Why
- Witness of Time - Now
- Witness of Time
- It is Made for You
Dissapearance Appearance
2013
Artist book, 23.5x33.5 cm (closed)/23.5x67 cm (open)/27 pages-languages. Ongoing series.
Exhibition/Venue:
- Subjective Maps/Disappearances, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2013.
- Acquisitions, Galery Nadežda Petrović, Čačak, Serbia, 2024.
Artwork in the collection of the Galery Nadežda Petrović, Čačak, Serbia.
Photo: Irena Lagator
The work Disappearance Appearance derives from the installation Knowledge of the Limited Responsibility Society (2009 - ), which collects fiscal receipts from around the world and arranges them into books that the public can freely browse, as well as from the work Equation Function (2012), which brings the economic concept of a limited responsibility society in mathematical relation to the artist's concept of a society of unlimited responsibility.
The artist extracts the concept of limited responsibility from the original context of the term LLC (Limited Liability Company), coined by the world of economics and commercial law to denote a company in which the rights (and responsibilities) of each partner are proportional to their share in the company, and applies it more broadly to society as a whole.
In the work Disappearance Appearance, the equation is translated into 27 languages of countries where the LLC functions as an economic model. The artistic research and reflection on the need for assuming responsibility is summarized in an equation whose negative result (No) nevertheless carries a positive value, thus representing a negation that confirms the need and possibility for a more responsible society based on solidarity in an era of harsh dominance of global financial capitalism.
Thus, the work Disappearance Appearance, as simultaneously poetic and ecological, political and social, makes visible the questions of personal and collective responsibilities, issues of common interest that affect all our lives and aspects of contemporary society which is primarily governed and regulated by economic processes, real estate market speculations, desires and expectations, and the economy as a system of values.
This effort to make visible the Res publica, the public "thing," that is, the bureaucratic procedure of the real economic instrument that governs our lives, highlights the need for awareness of the facts, situations, and words that the force of habit and the system have rendered obscure and barely significant: it serves to alert our consciousness to the risk of blindly accepting the dominant social system and its relentless and ever-increasing limitation of responsibility. (Irena Lagator Pejović)
