The Espace H2O in Oberkorn (Rue Rattem) is hosting a solo exhibition entitled "The Soul of Water" by local resident Ivana Ceković from 4 March to 3 April 2022.
The exhibition includes a video installation that occupies a whole room as well as lenticular images, drawings and models.
According to scientific research, water that has been in contact with certain substances retains an imprint of their properties even though they are statistically no longer present. Would it then retain the imprints of the beings, the entities with which it was in contact? Is this global aquatic network an organism - a giant database of all our times? If water has memory and can retain the properties of light - does it not become light in its turn? Where does one element begin and the other end?
Considering light and water as the same entity, this exhibition proposes the exploration and visual highlighting of water as a substantial vibration and fundamental link between all elements of our world. Through different mediums, a unique experience and crossed views are proposed on this essential element of our existence.
Ivana Ceković explained "In search of a synergy between visual and sound vibrations towards a dematerialisation of the current space, I aim at creating a whole - element of which the spectators will be an integral part, immersed in an atmosphere of floating and vibration... The local rivers - the Moselle, the Sûre - together with the rhythms of other, geographically more distant waters, are brought back into a hall of H2O space by means of video. Parallel universes intermingle. The different space and time overlap. At the back of the hall, an eye porthole through which we observe (... or are we observed?) links the amniotic fluid to the global water network."
The second part of the exhibition offers still images, flashbacks, fragments of memory and embodied visions the Soul of Water - the Breath of H2O, as well as the presentation of the installations I imagine in the open air through lenticular images, collages and models.
Ivana Ceković studied classical music (piano) and fine arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, and in 1990 completed a Masters degree in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She completed a second Masters in the new media department of the University in Metz (France) in 2002 (Master of Communication Aesthetics). Since 1992, she has lived and worked in Luxembourg as a visual artist and lecturer for the Luxembourg Ministry of Education.
Ivana Ceković is an interdisciplinary artist who has been active on the international scene since the 1990s. As well as many exhibitions in Luxembourg, Serbia, Europe and the United States, Ivana Ceković has also completed a number of important interdisciplinary projects: Free Walk around Closed Doors (a project for the new millennium for Luxembourg City in 2000, the catalogue for the City Museum of Luxembourg, 40 pages), House L., a video quartet for the inauguration of the Luxembourg presidency of the European Union in 2005. Ivana Ceković has represented Luxembourg in the international projects Penelopeia in Washington, 2004 and Urban Screens in Melbourne in 2008. The video works of Ivana Ceković have been shown at international video festivals and on art television channels in Spain, France, Germany and Columbia. Her works may be found in private and public collections in Benelux, USA and Serbia.
One of the founders of the arts association Musel Link in Luxembourg, Ivana Ceković is the creator and custodian of the project miMO (Monumental Miniature) and, since 2015, has organised exhibitions of contemporary miniatures in Luxembourg, international exchanges, collaborations and guest appearances.
The project has been realised thanks to the support of Luxembourg's Ministry of Culture and the Ville de Differdange; the exhibition is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 15:00 - 19:00 daily, and by appointment. Free entry. To attend, contact email: info@stadhaus.lu or tel: 58771-1900.
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