Arts as the question: which side are you on?
Amila Ramovic presents Grayson Perry's exhibition on the trail of contemporary curatorial ideas for the emancipation of observers. Key questions become – Why am I visiting this exhibition? What does it say to us? What do we need to understand? (Maybe even what it says about your taste or what we wish people to think of your taste?)
In this tour, the visitor is not a passive observer, because the function of art here is not just to show us art work but to start the thought processes. Therefore, Grayson Perry puts himself in a position of switched role between the one who observes and the others that are being observed, and he shows himself not only through the art work, but through the signs he leaves in the public space that classify him as the class differences fighter and provocateur of society's hypocrisy.
WHO IS AMILA RAMOVIĆ?
Amila Ramović is a curator and musicologist from Sarajevo. In 2000 she became Ars Aevi project team member and she is executive director of Ars Aevi since 2005. She has taken part in organizing many exhibitions and educational projects, while she also curated many domestic and international artists’ exhibitions. During 2016 and 2017 she cooperated on curators’ retrospective exhibition of Béle Tarra in Eye Museum in Amsterdam.
She develops pedagogical and scientific research as an associate, then she is an assistant professor at the Sarajevo Music Academy for subjects in the field of contemporary music and sound art (since 2007) and at the Academy of Performing Arts (since 2017), and in 2017 she is a visiting professor at University of Barcelona. She has achieved a number of international projects in the fields of music, sound arts and intermedia.