U TROKUTU VREMENA - Sergej Vutuc

U TROKUTU VREMENA - Sergej Vutuc
24 pages, 250gr cover 150gr inside, stencil duplicator
Printed at Smak Press, Zagreb, 2024
Edition of 90 (firt 10 printed on green paper)
Copublished with Smak Press

U TROKUTU VREMENA is a physical extension of the eponymous exhibition at AŽ Gallery in the city district of Žitnjak, Zagreb - formerly a region of wheat fields turned industrial zone and groundwater exploitation area post World War II. The event is described by Vutuc as having happened « somewhere on the way back to somewhere, at an unknown point that has always existed in between », itself located « between natural and chemical paths, industrial currents, appropriate names of conscientious global trends and animal symbolism. »

The work, created and presented in a few days « spent moving around the studio » in Žitnjak, questions how much and how far it is possible to go with image, film and symbolism within such a short timespan. Using analogue photography and a spontaneously improvised chamber in the toilet, prints were made combining 35mm and 16mm film used for the projector-based performance that had opened the exhibition.

It is one of the artist's « continuing objects » - a publication which prolongs the happening on a temporal, physical and conceptual level, resulting in a tangible reverberation that is just as strong of the context of its inception as it is of its own persuasiveness as a singular piece. The making and publishing of the book involve the participation of Smak Press, Zagreb.