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
Where is the Monument?
2019
installation, color photography on aludibond, art documentation
70x150 cm, 70x50 cm each photography
Exhibition/Venue: 41. exhibition 13. November salon, Art gallery "Miodrag Dado Đurić", National Museum, Cetinje, Montenegro, 2019, curated by Natalija Vujošević.
Artwork included in THE BROKEN ARCHIVE Artistic Practices Bridging the Mediterranean.
https://www.brokenarchive.org/artist/irena-lagator-pejovic
Photo of the installation: Jovan Milošević
This hanging photographic installation is a work in progress. Its outside shows uncultivated city vegetation that visualizes spontaneous processes of micro biodiversity to which citizens are often indifferent, because it doesn’t belong to their personal property. Instead, it is part of the public space that is both common and nobody’s at the same time.
The inner side of the installation shows content related to history, memory and the notion of freedom. During the process of building a tourist facility on the Montenegrin coast, a monument to the fallen fighters in the People’s Liberation War of 1941-1945 was discovered, but it was simultaneously covered with the construction materials to be soon even fully removed.
Since the monument stood forgotten in the same place for years because it was covered with dense uncultivated plants, this installation is saving the new but unfortunately brief visibility of the monument, in order to remind us of fundamental cultural and societal values such as freedom.
The installation also shows a document which I addressed to the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro and its Directorate for the Development and Promotion of Activities in the field of Cultural Heritage with a request to answer my question: Where is the monument? Their response, as well as further documentation, will be presented on the occasion of future presentations of this same installation.
The work activates the questions related to environmental, cultural and political instrumentalization by the structural powers in a time when profit-oriented goals ignore historical, scientific and solidarity-oriented processes. Therefore, this work focuses on sensitization of the audience to the critical exploration of the instrumental and hidden powers in society that shape our surroundings and thus our lives at both local and global levels.
