CONFESS
Artists: Igor Andjelić and Marina Abramović
This is not the first time that artist Igor Andjelić has addressed those who enter sacred spaces. Over the past ten years, he has conceived a series of multidisciplinary projects that seek to shake the traditional static role of art in the restrictive context of sacred architecture. Although his photography career is well known, it is his interventions in sacred spaces that show him most clearly as a cultural agitator and creator of artistic experiences.
The exhibition Confess, currently on view in the Church of Our Lady of Health in Piran, is the artist’s fourth intervention in this space. With a truly iconoclastic stance and an unwavering intuition, Igor Andjelić once again creates a utopian situation that takes the ideology of the contemporary exhibition space back to its ecclesiastical origins, thus shaping an updated liturgy that transcends the predictable limits of artistic intervention. Through the choice of space and the works on display, as well as their considered placement, the artist and his collaborators create a deliberately mystical atmosphere that evokes a contemplative experience in the visitor. Confess is a total work of art with clear transcendental tendencies. The object here is a sanctuary with dynamic and contemporary artistic expressions that replace the absent religious symbolism, while the context belongs to the viewer.
Confess is an invitation to an insightful experience that happens at the very moment when the observer is confronted with an unexpected image of oneself. To accept that the reflection of one’s own image is far from the perfect ideal we have of ourselves. To honestly admit that we can always expect more from ourselves.
Curator: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec
Church of Our Lady of Health, Piran, Slovenia
7 June – 29 October 2024
Production: ULAY Foundation
Supported by: Municipality of Piran – Comune di Pirano
Photos: Igor Andjelić, Matjaž Stopar, Mateja Mirt, Christian Reinhardt.
