While a third of the participants of the Venice Biennale went on strike because of their support for Palestine, Nikola Selaković opened the Serbian Pavilion in the company of Tamara Vučić
On May 8, Serbia did not join the one-day strike of at least 27 out of a total of one hundred national pavilions Venice Biennale, thereby expressing support for Palestine and protesting Israel's involvement, but also fighting for labor rights in art.
Selaković on the Biennale
During the strike, the Serbian Pavilion was opened by the Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovic in the presence of the exhibition author Through Golgotha to EasterPredrag Đaković, wife of the President of Serbia Tamara Vučić and other guests.
Tamara Vučić and Nikola Selaković
He pointed out that Through Golgotha to Easter it testifies that art is aware of its own responsibility in facing the most difficult issues of our time, and that for our country, as well as for many others, in the field of culture, this Biennale is clearly recognized as one of the most important events on the international level.
Tamara Vučić on art and peace
Tamara Vučić told the guests that "in a time of challenges and divisions, it is our duty to say it out loud: peace is not a coincidence. It is a conscious decision. And art is its most permanent ally on that path. And let this exhibition bear witness to that truth."
In her address, Vučić said that they are in a city that has been a meeting place of different civilizations, cultures and ideas for centuries, and reminded of the centuries-old connection between Venice and Serbia: from Anna Dandolo, through Laza Kostić to Prince Pavle, who bought a pavilion for Yugoslavia at the time and for whom Serbia is now.
"These are our associations with Venice, and the first among them is certainly love," said Vučić.
According to her, the purchase of our pavilion in 1938 was a message "that we consider cultural politics as a means of understanding, that art can be a universal diplomatic language, often even stronger than politics, that it is the intersection of individuality and the universal divine order."
"That's why we are opening this exhibition today by presenting one idea, his (Prince Pavle's) idea. The idea of the one who knew all the horrors of war and who carried the pain of tragedies and suffering of our people in his soul," Vučić pointed out.
A national tragedy in the center
Presenting his setup to Tamara Vučić and Nikola Selaković Through Golgotha to Easter, Predrag Đaković said that in the central part is Serbia, that is, the tragedy of our people from the Balkan Wars to the end of the Second World War, and the exhibition also refers to world and European history of the 20th century.
As a reminder, the installation in the Serbian Pavilion at the world exhibition of contemporary art was conceived as "a space of silence that encourages personal and collective reflection, a place for contemplation, not a spectacle." It consists of three elements: a large-format archival exhibition, a sculptural arrangement of hundreds of vintage suitcases, and a video work with a piano composition in A minor, composed and performed by the artist himself.
Reaction of the local public on the selection of Đaković as a representative of Serbia at the Art Biennale, where countries send the best and most modern they have, she was extremely negative.
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