irena lagator

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the work of irena lagator belongs to relational art in terms established by the french philosopher jacques rancière.
he discussed aesthetic and other approaches that are based on modes of operation within which art may be understood as both art and a form that evokes the concept of togetherness.
in the core of primary aesthetics, rancière explored the issue of human activity in general in order to arrive at the meaning of artistic practice from the perspective of shared togetherness.
the relations of the real and the representational, real and virtual, perception and imagination, material and immaterial, subject and object are key binary oppositions at the centre of irena lagator’s art. this is the element that makes visible a “new world order” for us and makes real “poetics of relations”.
from this, it is obvious that the art of irena lagator belongs within the context-conceptual arts practice.
in this sense, her overall work has an interdisciplinary character in which borderlines between art and architecture and science in general become foundations of new meanings in this ecoan, open artwork, virtual reality or real virtuality oriented towards questions of the future.
what we urgently need now is a new, dynamic concept of space that is characterised by immateriality and nonlocality.
architecture as spatial design has to adapt to this new ‘condition humaine’.
If we can speak about the visual on basis of the real or take the real as a point of departure, then the new spatial understanding beyond physicality cuts the ground from under architecture, which has so far been defined as spatial art and, as
we have shown, has always been tied to the body-oriented spatial experience.
when the architecture group coop himmelb, au states that architecture begins beyond space or architecture begins where space ends, they mean exactly that: contemporary architecture begins beyond the historical physically experienced space.

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by ljiljana zekovi


irena lagator
lives and works
in cetinje - montenegro and belgrade

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