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Mousse Magazine, November 2019
This Is Happening: Aleksandra Domanović
Aleksandra Domanović interviewed by Chiara Moioli
I’m holding Aleksandra Domanović’s iPhone in my hand, its camera pointed at a pedestal on which is printed a series of lines forming a grid. Thus framed, the pattern becomes a voice—its tone warped into a metallic grimace by the device’s high-pitched speaker—yelling at me, echoing in the Sala del Parnaso at GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano: “Why aren’t you working?” On top of the pedestal, seemingly talking, is Medardo Rosso’s La Portinaia (The Concierge, 1883-1884), the central object of interest in Domanović’s latest project, The Falseness of Holes (2019).Winner of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture, Domanović has conceived a sculpture consisting of an app that, dialoguing
“Frozen, golden in that lightMovement, open just a slightMovement, and you brought me back to life”—Henry Green, “Aiir,” from Another Light (London: Akira Records, 2018)
Aleksandra Domanović, Turbo Sculpture (still), 2010. Courtesy: the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin
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