ALEKSANDRA ANTIĆ (SA) - A Study For The Dissolved Self

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Perhaps(…) I am the thing that divides the world in two (…) thin as a foil, i’m neither one side nor the other, i’m in the middle, i’m the partition i’ve two surfaces and no thickness, […] I’m the tympanum […] — Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable. New York: Grove Press, 1955

A study for the dissolved self employs the legacy of the working life of my mother, a printed textileindustry labourer, as a basis for a phenomenological inquiry beyond the dichotomy between internaland external ‘modes’ of being, particularly in the context of migration and assimilation.Through screen-printing and video, the project engages with the concept of fragmentation andrepetition as provisional structures against which the understanding of movement, transition or in-betweenness are explored. The work considers Deleuze’s idea of the ‘becoming-becoming’ as a movement, a force of the continual production or return of difference, an idea of self as a constantly changing convergence of forces.