Color Bar
Serbia / 2007 / woven tapestry / recycled plastic bags from Belgrade / 200 x 150 x 5 cm

Recycling thin plastic bags from Belgrade.

Together with Serbian assistants I've been weaving Color Bar during five days at BELEF festival 2007.  While working with these colorful bags in public space, in the park near the Military museum, we had many conversations with people passing by. We talked about plastic in the broadest sense of the word: from plastic polluting the environment till commercial television in public space. The interaction with the audience at the festival was part of the work.

Thanks to the artist-in-residency Belgrade Correspondent at the REX in 2005 I was invited to come to BELEF. During that residency I collected the plastic bags, and again in 2006 when I was in Belgrade to give a video workshop. I took the bags to the Netherlands. Summer 2007 I returned them all to Belgrade. Together with bags the festival collected during some months, I realised Color Bar. The work contains an estimated 800 bags.

Exhibition: BELEF, Belgrade Summer Festival
Location: Park at Kalemegdan fortress, Belgrade, Serbia
Working period: July 25th till 29th, 2007 
Exhibition period: July 30th till August 12th, 2007
Curators: Darka Radosavljevic, Maja Ciric, Nebojsa Milikic
Production: Mirjana Stojadinovic, Sasa Nenadovic
Weaving assistants: Nikola Stojkovic, Nemanja Vidakovic, Natalija Klepic, Damir Sehic, Milutin Beslic
Technical assistants: Mirko Radosavljevic, Slobodan Krstevski, Nikola Vokic, Milos Dobric
Press: BELEF journal at Metropolis television Serbia, and Daily journal at RTS (Radio Televizija Srbija)

Further exhibitions:
2024 Limburg Biënnale, Marres Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Maastricht, curated by Anouk Kruithof
2022 Part of solo exhibition Toko Su, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, self-curated 
2016 Part of solo exhibition Jejak, Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, self-curated
2007 Salon 2007, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2007 Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam