L'arte di Lana:
Video-performance "Female President"
In questa video-performance l'autrice, da un podio, narra la scioccante testimonianza di una giovane donna, violentata e torturata durante la guerra in Bosnia-Erzegovina, utilizzando mimiche facciali e gestualità tipiche di oratori e/o dittatori.
Il testo che recita è tratto dal libro Implorai loro di uccidermi: crimini contro le donne durante la guerra in Bosnia-Erzegovina. Pubblicato dal Centro di investigazione e documentazione dell'associazione di ex-internati in campi di prigionia della Bosnia-Erzegovina, Sarajevo, 2000.
Oltre alle lancinanti sensazioni che risveglia quest'opera - un misto di tristezza, empatia, rabbia e vergogna -, nel guardarla attentamente sembra che l'autrice voglia porre l'attenzione sul contrasto tra ciò che vediamo e ciò che sentiamo, giocando con abilità coi nostri sensi nel trasformare le percezioni della realtà e ponendoci in un'inevitabile posizione nella quale il nostro cervello invece di un singolo processo percettivo ora compie due separati processi e rende il "vedere" e il "sentire" di questo video in modo totalmente nuovo.
Nel 2005 la video-performance Female President è diventata parte di Big Atlas of Fayz-e Abdest dell'artista Alma Suljević, nonché parte della compilation DVD Chi sono quelle ragazze? proiettato al Quartier Museum di Vienna. Nel 2006 è stato presentato al Pitchwise Festival of Women Arts di Sarajevo, e nel 2008 ai "Giorni di Sarajevo" a Belgrado.
Note biografiche:
Lana Čmajćanin nasce a Sarajevo il 10.09.1983. Nel 2007 si laurea presso l'accademia di Belle Arti di Sarajevo, dipartimento di scultura. Attualmente lavora presso il Centro di Arte Contemporanea di Sarajevo come program coordinator. E' editorilista di INFO - digital age magazine e membra dell'associazione degli artisti della Bosnia-Erzegovina.
Mostre personali:
2008 On the place of the face; 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
2007 World with my Eyes; ArtAtak project; Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art – So.ba, Sarajevo, B&H
Topography of human faces, graduation exhibition; Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
Mostre collettive:
2008 They In Person - Young Women′s Art in BH; PitchWise-festival of women art; CIPS- Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, BiH; curated by Branka Vujanović
They In Person - Young Women′s Art in BH; Enver Krupić Gallery/City Gallery, Bihać, B&H; curated by Branka Vujanović
Bujrum, izvolite; Group performance with Alma Suljević, Adela Jušić, Lana Čmajčanin, Danijela Dugandžić i Ilvana Dizdarević at the closing of Days of Sarajevo Festival; Sebilj česma, Belgrade, Serbia;
Sarajevo through eyes of people from Sarajevo and Belgrade – Fastival Days of Sarajevo; Center for Cultural Decontamination, Pavillion Veljkovic, Belgarde, Serbia
Models of TRANSformation – Youth Salon 2008; City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, B&H; curated by Branka Vujanović and Asja Mandić
They In Person - Young Women′s Art in BH; Museum of Zenica City, Zenica, B&H; curated by Branka Vujanović
2006 The Annual Students' Exhibition; Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
PitchWise-festival of women arts; Historical Museum of B&H, Sarajevo, B&H;
Curve of female body; Academy of Fine Arts Gellery, Sarajevo, B&H
The Annual Students' Exhibition (selective); Academy of Fine Arts Gellery, Sarajevo, B&H
Participation in Fayz-e Abdest; performance by artist Alma Suljević, BetonSalon, Museums Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria;
2005
Youth of B&H, let's create our future!; The Exhibition of young BH artists, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, B&H
Students' days; B. Smoje Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
The Annual Students' Exhibition (selective); Academy of Fine Arts Gellery, Sarajevo, B&H
Happening, Students' festival; Sarajevo Cathedral Plateau, Sarajevo, B&H
Participation in Fayz-e Abdest; performance by artist Alma Suljević, Hanikah, Sarajevo, B&H;
2004
Alles bronze; Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
Metal Sculptures; Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
Scharfe Brise, Festival für Kunst, International Art Festival, Bremen, Germany
2003
Balkan Youth Festival, International Festival of Young Artists, City gallery of Thessalonica, Thessalonica, Greece
Video:
2008
Inverted Polanski; Spa-Port, International Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art – side programme; University Campus, Banja Luka, B&H
Female President; Sarajevo through eyes of people from Sarajevo and Belgrade – Fastival Days of Sarajevo; Center for Cultural Decontamination, Pavillion Veljkovic, Belgarde, Serbia
2006
Female President; PitchWise-festival of women arts; Historical Museum of B&H, Sarajevo, B&H
Female President; Betonsalon, Museums Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria
Workshops, progetti e presentazioni:
2008
WoodWomen; Interactive creative process of making of an art-work with eco friendly material – Lana and Leila Čmajčanin, PitchWise Festival of Women Arts, Sarajevo, B&H
Spa-Port – Video Workshop; realised within International Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art Spa-Port; Workshop leaders: Anita Di Bianco (New York/Berlin) and Bojan Fajfrić (Belgrade/Amsterdam); Banja Luka, B&H
Summit of non-aligned centers for culure; Regional conference of independent cultural centres; Presentation of ArtAtak project; Cultural Center Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia
Making of artefacts for the exhibition „Sarajevo 1878 – 1918“ , Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria
Making of Giant Anatomic Jewl; The 1st Pitchnik, Youth Cultural Center Abrašević, Mostar, B&H
2006 - present
ArtAtak; Initiator and curator of ArtAtak project; Sarajevo, Zenica, Mostar, BiH
Making of wax figures of Franz Ferdinand and Sophia for Museum of Sarajevo, department „Sarajevo 1878 – 1918“, Sarajevo, B&H
2005
Youth of BH, let's create our future!; Painting on the streets of Sarajevo, USAID project, Sarajevo, B&H
Cadvre Exquis; Workshop by artist Rienke Enghardt; Roman Petrović Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
Participation in project of presentation of Bosnia and Herzegovina at 51st Venice Biennale; Map of female authors in Big Atlas Fayz-e Abdest by artist Alma Suljević, Sarajevo, B&H
2004
Symposium on bronze; Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo in cooperation with the Hochschule für Kunst Bremen; Bremen, Germany
Metal Sculptures, Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo in cooperation with the University of Arts Philadelphia; Symposium and practical performance of ancient methods of casting sculptures in metal, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, B&H.
Mail: lana@scca.ba