Andrej Beštak & Anja Leko, If You Taste My Tears, You Will Know Why I Cry
In the center of Oktogon, we are met with a drinking fountain; a speculative fiction that delves into the origin of water as giver and taker of life. Merging myth and fact, the water bottles contain the amount of tears a human can produce in a year. Sorrow, grief, and sadness are met with limits, as individuals can take so much; yet connected to a wider eco-story that spreads oceans, seas, and rivers. A soft and infantile gesture was reshaped into a whimsical nursery and lullaby at SKD gallery, the second group exhibition site.
The work belongs to the cycle I will show you where I hide my tears.
60th Zagreb Salon 🧩 Choreography for the Finish Line
7. - 31.10.
📸 @buvinic.ivan
Drops of water, rivers, tears and rain, an ocean without waves and a lake with no bottom.
In this space there is an impulse.
Nursery for untold stories.
A romantic space, unspoken love, a soft touch on the skin.
A nervous sensation.
Everything exists in this space.
This sphere is a medium for storing information.
A hard drive of all the impulses of life.
That which is around the corner, still invisible but felt.
A place of unfulfilled desires and great successes.
A laboratory of quantum melancholy.
In this room everything is information and everything is written.
The capacity of tears, the height of the waves, the power of the river and the volume of sweat.
Beautiful sounds by:
Jökull Máni Reynisson @_.j_k_l_m_n._
Masaya Ozaki @masayaozaki
Yulia Vasileva @vasilievayulia
Christian Høgh @christianhgh
I am swimming in my own body.
In the bluest, darkest liquid I find answers but never remember them.
I am drinking from your hand.
And I am licking your tears.
And I know now why you were crying.
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Andrej Beštak & Anja Leko, Songs of the Owls (2023–24)
A fictional tale of an owl deity explores superstition and belief in a world ruled by data and digital saturation.
Instagram: @andrej4x4 , @bbycore.hr
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Andrej Beštak & Anja Leko, Songs of the Owls (2023–24)
Fiktivna priča o božanstvu sove propituje granicu između praznovjerja i vjere u svijetu kojim upravljaju podaci i digitalna prezasićenost.
Instagram: @andrej4x4 , @bbycore.hr
Performans Da smo barem samo gledali, a nismo lizali, Andreja Beštaka i Anje Leko u suradnji s Ivanom Bojanić, održan je u sklopu 60. zagrebačkog salon, u petak u Galeriji SKD “Prosvjeta”!
“Ovo je priča o nastanku vode, meta prostor u kojem odzvanja onaj nagovještaj koji će pokrenuti svijet. Priča o Ja u ogledalu drugog. Iskon svega dobrog i lošeg.”
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I wish I’d only look and didn’t have to lick l, performance by Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko with Ivana Bojanić was held as part of 60th Zagreb salon on Friday at Gallery SKD “Prosvjeta”!
“This is a fictional story about the creation of water, a meta space in which the hint that will move the world resonates. The story of the Self in the mirror of the other. The origin of all good and bad.”
📷 Juraj Vuglač @juroholic
60. Zagrebački salon 🧩 Koreografija za završnu liniju
👅 Performans: Andrej Beštak & Anja Leko
Da smo barem samo gledali, a nismo lizali
10.10. u 20 sati, Galerija SKD “Prosvjeta”
