Thanks for Your Visit and See You Soon
book
2013
The work Thanks for Your Visit and See You Soon is a collection of fiscal receipts that the artist collected over a period of one year. The book, in the form of a diary or diary notes, consists of scanned sheets of bills on which the artist intervened by drawing. The work was exhibited at the 54th October Salon in 2013 (No One Belongs Here More Than You); in response to the given concept, the work deals with the result of and the relationship to contemporary capitalist conditions of everyday life.
The installation Thanks for Your Visit and See You Soon was originally composed of a book and drawings created by copying newspaper pages over a period of one year – during her master’s studies at Sint Lukas University in Brussels. One sheet in the book corresponds to one scanned drawing on one bill. All the bills that were used form a block in the black booklet, titled “308.55 Euros”, which is the amount of tax. The topics of Adrijana’s work are anecdotal and/or peripheral art, conventions of presentation, artistic motivation and responsibility in the general context of art, and wider – of socio-political relations.
© Cultural Centre of Belgrade, October Salon Collection and the artist
Gift Contract: III-5-289/1/24.9.2014.
Inventory No. 1358
Photo: Milan Kralj
Selected Bibliography:
54th October Salon, No One Belongs Here More Than You. Cultural Centre of Belgrade, 2013
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Adrijana Gvozdenović (1986, Cetinje, Montenegro) completed her postgraduate studies in interdisciplinary graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, and her master’s studies at Sint Lukas University in Brussels. Her work focuses on the production of art books through which she develops sort of time-based – site-specific – publications. She works as a researcher and associate at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. More information at https://gadi.me/