@e_flux gallery, NYC
“So You Want to See”
So You Want to See brings together six women artists from decidedly different places and of different generations, using distinct methods of aesthetic investigation through works situated within various historical and social contexts, as well as within different genealogies of contemporary art and of its role within society. Yet their work testifies to parallel preoccupations across different social and artistic matrices that all share a keen interest in investigating the ways in which social norms become naturalized, and the role images play in this process.
For decades, feminist writers have critically analyzed the way regimes of representation take hold of mainstream media to the extent that they are not recognized as representations at all. But any assumed position of power over the productivity of visuality is subject to constant struggle and renegotiation. Through their distinct approaches, the artists in this exhibition build alternative projects for seeing, attempting to activate images from the opposite side in order to denaturalize and estrange them—to produce new ways of seeing other than mere observing.
While many works deal with issues of women’s struggle for emancipation and equality, both historically and in contemporary conditions, the exhibition revolves around different approaches to ways of looking and seeing. It attempts to sketch out the interplay of relations between what we obstinately refuse to see and what we desire to see. Appropriation, collage, critical juxtaposition, reworking of documentary approach, and the combining of various cultural references are among the chief strategies that artists in the exhibition use in order to confront and subvert perceptions of what is customary, normal, and taken for granted. The works presented strive to make contradictions apparent, to expose the mechanisms through which meaning is formed through visuality, and to dispute the processes through which the interpretation of history is constructed.
“What the cat dragged in…”
Growing up around sk8 shops in the 90s and 00s was something different.
Before algorithms told us what to wear, what to listen to, or who to be — we found each other in tiny shops filled with scratched decks, shoe boxes, sticker-covered counters, VHS tapes, burnt CDs, and that unmistakable smell of fresh grip tape.
Those places were never just stores.
They were shelters. Meeting points. Little worlds of freedom.
You’d walk in as a kid trying to figure yourself out, and somehow leave feeling seen.
We learned everything there — music, style, art, rebellion, friendship, independence.
We spent whole days sitting on the floor, talking nonsense, watching skate videos for the hundredth time, waiting for someone to land a trick outside. Nobody cared what you had, only whether you showed up.
It was messy, loud, imperfect and real.
No filters. No curated lives.
Just bruised knees, oversized hoodies, scratched CDs, late summer nights, and the feeling that life was still waiting for us somewhere beyond the next spot.
Looking back now, it feels almost unreal that we got to grow up like that.
And somehow… despite all the chaos, we all grew up well. 🔑❤️
See you tomorrow ✨
DK is where the world’s creative minds gather on the coast of Rovinj for three days of no-BS talks, no-filters discussions and no-holds-barred experiences.
Voted among the best events in the world for a reason (several times, mind you), we refuse to settle for mediocrity in every aspect: program, production, organization, lineup, awards shows, side events, branding... You name it, we undid it, rebuilt it and made it sting in all the right ways.
And if you’re wondering how we got here, take a trip down DK memory lane - years of broken rules and rebuilt experiences included.
Creativity is the essential pulse of human progress, a powerful force that turns raw intuition into the world we see and feel around us.
Croatia’s most awarded female creative director Jelena Fiškuš (Creative Director and Co-founder, Studio Sonda, Member of HURA and IAB Croatia, Member of DK Organizing Committee) brings together singer-songwriter Marko Purušić aka Baby Lasagna, artist Marina Mesar aka OKO and designer Gala Marija Vrbanić, founder of Tribute Brand, for a conversation about what creativity actually needs today
- structurally, emotionally and professionally - to stay true to itself. Less “how to go viral”, more “how to stay real while doiod it”
Brainimal
Mystical creature
(sort of creature in great danger of extinction)
Monografija Plakatiranje is a book featuring the Vizkultura collection of 259 art posters created by various artists, designers, illustrators, and design studios from Croatia and the region.
At a time when visual communication is increasingly shaped by fast-paced, fragmented digital flows, Vizkultura’s PLAKATIRANJE project stands out as a rare example of a long-term, continuous, and author-driven exploration of the poster as a medium.
Launched in 2013, at the very beginning of Vizkultura’s activity, the project brought together an impressive number of contributors over the years — likely more than any similar project in the region.
The newly published monograph gathers this extensive body of work, offering, across 560 pages, an overview of the authors’ creative solutions as well as the social, political, personal, and cultural contexts that shaped them.
Created out of a need to preserve and unify the project’s legacy, and inspired by a retrospective reflection on its scope and unique collective spirit, the monograph represents a kind of final act of the PLAKATIRANJE project — one that, although completed long ago, remains permanently embedded in the contemporary local visual culture.
