GHOSTWORK, 2013
Keyboards, ca. 90 x 210 cm x variable
Sladjan Nedeljkovic plays with the formal similarity of serially produced building systems and urban high-rises. The wall piece created for the exhibition is a conglomeration of old computer keyboards that have spilled out their keys into the room. The remaining keys have been rearranged into series of letters that spell city names such as Paris, Lima, Berlin, Manila, Sydney, Maputo and Zurich. Interchangeable set pieces are combined to create a facade whose decay points to an image of urban architectural marvels that has disappeared with time, and which prevails in all the world’s major cities.
The installation indicates the consequences of a homogenized world, while also telling of discrepancies that result from the all-encompassing digitization: for example, it comments on our society of disposable goods as well as the threats of global communications systems, and ultimately evokes references to the Tower of Babel. Ghostwork offers an artistic cartography of the dimensions of our globalized world.
UNTITLED (COVERING), 2013
Newsprint sprayed silver, 57 x 40 cm / 57 x 80 cm
Photos: A. Coers
UNTITLED (COVERING), 2013
Newsprint sprayed silver, 57 x 40 cm
Photos: A. Coers