EMBROIDERY

I REALLY DON´T LIKE IT HERE






   


Material : Sponge, textile, buttons, threads, wool and pink bow on canvas
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I really don´t like it here was made for State a bed exhibition, curated by Natasha Kadin, relating to ways the state interferes into our private lives. 
This work consists of ovaries and uterus made of sponge and dressed in lovely, pink fabric, displayed on framed canvas. The ovaries are tied together with a large decorative bow, which is a reference to the Croatian law limiting the rights of women in decisions concerning their bodies. If you are a woman under 35 who has not given birth yet, you cannot undergo tubal ligation! The fact that reproductive choice is controlled by the state and not the woman, is a violent intrusion of the nation(al(ity)) into the space of personal freedom. The state thus becomes a religious-nationalistic rapist and (how about that!) a would-be parent as well.



 FOUR STROKE - HANDWORK




 

  

2011
Embroidery, textile collage and drawing on twill canvas
60x80cm


Embroidery use to be a fun and lovely way to spend days for women, because they had time, concerning they weren't allowed to work or to go to bars, as man did. So they stayed home, stitching flowers, animals or other decorative motives.
You could always do mechanics as a job, which is not the case with embroidery.

It didn´t stand a chance for becoming a proper vocation, so it remained a knowledge transferred from mothers to daughters.

I think each woman should decorate her home or work place walls with embroidery showing a diagram of a four stroke engine, used in automotive industry, which is one of the world’s largest and four stroke being most commonly used machine.




EMBROIDERY SERIES
















SC Gallery, Zagreb, solo exhibition
Embroidery, textile collage and drawing on twill canvas 
60x80cm (three pieces) 
40x60(six pieces) 



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photos: Damir Zizic



 FOUR STROKE - MACHINE STITCH

  




photos by: Tonči Gaćina





4 STROKE
2011
machine embroidery, wall hanging
70x90cm



4 STROKE deals with knowledge and gender.


How come that some activities belong to men and other to women? 



Today, I have a job and I can pay to have my embroidery done. 
I wanted a motive that would be useful and beautiful at the same time.
So I got myself a four stroke engine diagram stitched.
It is a wall hanging, just like one my mother use to have in the kitchen.

Did you know that carburetor is a part of the motor which can also be called "the kitchen"?




MOM, I LOVE YOU














Performance, "Mom, I love you"
twill embroidered with a motive showing three phase current flow
2010. group exhibition «Artikulacija», Gallery VN,
Zagreb, Croatia