December 2021
FRONT GALLERY

GAIL HOCKING (SA), NIKOLINA BUTORAC (HR)

Erosion of a Future Memory

‘Erosion of a Future Memory’ is in response to collaborative research activity between Adelaide based Gail Hocking and international Croatian artist Nikolina Butorac  for exhibiting at FELtspace Adelaide December 2021 AND Gallery Cekao – Cultural Centre University of Zagreb, Croatia April 2022 

Truth is an emotion, it flows through our body. Veins, chest, heart. And the question is how much do we hear her rustling, her warmth melting our in our chests. We bathe in a storm of warm and cold that murmurs and shakes under the flash of the thunder that revives and changes us. To accept the new means to enter the struggle. TEXT: Nikolina Butorac

We want to materialize a sequence of different memories, which form activities that honestly depict the current state of the planet and us, through the gesture of writing, poetry, drawings, ephemeral interventions, performances and sculptural objects that can shape boundaries, indicate trajectory, and enable views.

The accidental audience is the seed of reality that processes the artistic act, thereby growing together with the artist.  Art activity can express the elements of truth in the culture, so every time a work of art is created, new meanings are rewriting old ones. 

Essay written by anthropologist and scholar Senka Bozic