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Danica Dakic
Danica Dakic creates sculptural installations,
site-specific video projections, and public architectural
sound projects to investigate the corporal and global
aspects of identity and language, as well as the tensions
that arise between collective and individual experience.
Her video installation Zid/Wall (1998) comprises 64
square images of mouths telling stories in different
languages, edited into a collage recalling bricks in
a wall or a patchwork of parallel individual stories.
Zid/Wall highlights Dakic's concern with the relationship
between architecture, the body, and identity. In her
video installation Autoportrait (1999), two languages
and stories emerge from a barely animated bust of the
artist. In this image, the artist's mouth is doubled,
replacing her eyes and enabling her to tell fairytales
simultaneously in Bosnian and German. As this disconcerting
image obscures recognition of Dakic's face by obliterating
the artist's eyes, it also portrays the composite of
language, stories, and homes that make up her identity.
Dakic's work has been shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
Sweden (1999); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig,
Vienna, Austria (1999); Kunstsammlung NRW Duesseldorf,
Germany (2000); Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof,
Berlin, Germany (2001), and she has created site-specific
public projects in Bratislava, Slovakia, and in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in
1999. Dakic was born in Sarajevo and studied at the
Academy of Art in Sarajevo, the Academy of Art in Belgrade,
and the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf. She lives and
works in Dusseldorf, Germany, and in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovinia.
Danica
Dakic Diary
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