We don’t know what this is but certainly it is not what you think it is by Ana Krstić may be regarded as a soft sculpture. It is soft not only because it is made of canvas strips that can be rearranged and reinstalled in different shapes; it is soft also in its ability to blend into a space and to adapt to its conditions, its smells, its colours and its stories. Yet this softness is interfering, it is on the way, and it cannot be grasped “at one go” and comprehended in any sense of wholeness from any fixed viewpoint. Partly a reference to “vorlehre” exercises with paper and scissors at Bauhaus, partly a reference to 1960s minimalism, this piece as crammed in an abandoned mouldy office is not what you think it is, and it is not what you expect it should be. – Branislav Dimitrijević, from the catalogue of the 53rd October salon, page 56.

The work was produced and exhibited at the 53^rd October Salon: Good Life, 2012

© Cultural Centre of Belgrade, October Salon Collection and the artist
Purchase Contract: III-5-454/1/10.12.2014.
Inventory No. 1381
Photo: installation view 53^rd October Salon, Ana Kostić

Selected Bibliography:
53^rd October Salon, Good Life: Physical Narratives and Spatial Imaginations. Cultural Centre of Belgrade, 2012
Art + Media, Journal of Art and Media Studies, No 7, April 2015, Art and Politics: Agency, Autonomy, Emancipation – Artist Portfolio, Singidunum University, Belgrade, 2015, 78–81.
Vesna Milosavljević, “Možemo li sada stati?” (talk with the artist), SEEcult.org, Belgrade, July 22, 2012, http://www.seecult.org/vest/mozemo-li-sada-stati, accessed on March 27, 2020
Guided tour of the exhibition We Can’t Stop Now, SEEcult.org, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3-tWdeD0Fk, accessed on March 27, 2020