{"id":2731,"date":"2019-07-15T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?page_id=2731"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:12:52","slug":"in-vendar-me-briga-and-yet-i-do-bother","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/drawings\/in-vendar-me-briga-and-yet-i-do-bother","title":{"rendered":"In vendar me briga \/ And yet I do bother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year: 2019
\nTechnique: 15 drawings, ink on paper, 42 x 30 cm<\/p>\n

The series of drawings was created in the third edition of the exhibition Briga me za konec sveta \/ I can\u2019t be bothered with the end of the world<\/a> (Ravne Gallery, 2019). The title In vendar me briga \/ And yet I do bother<\/em> is a response not only to the exhibition\u2019s title, but also to the previous series of drawings Briga me \u2026 \/ I can\u2019t be bothered \u2026<\/a>,<\/em> which is also on display in the same exhibition. The motifs of the previous drawings represent scenes from everyday life in which we are preoccupied by ourselves and our own problems. The wider social context doesn\u2019t touch us. Despite the irony, the title of the exhibition communicates a certain level of resignation and above all emphasises our inactivity. With the new series, I set out to search for images of inspiration. I found them in photos of protests in which women are in the foreground. In different times and places, they have organised around various themes and used their own bodies in the struggle for social change. Some of the protagonists on the photos are known (suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, the anti-war collective \u017dene u crnom (Women in Black), activist for Palestinian rights Ahed Tamimi, climate change activist Greta Thunberg), others are mostly unknown protesters. Their photographs have become a symbol of the fight against oppression and have gone viral online and in the media. Regardless of the complex backgrounds and what we know or don\u2019t know about the contexts of how these photographs came to be, for me, these images represent the hope that, in spite of everything, it\u2019s still possible to change the world.<\/p>\n

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\nEmmeline Pankhurst arrested at Buckingham Palace, London, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nRosa Parks, Montgomery bus, USA, 1956<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDanuta Danielsson, Neo-Nazi demonstration, Sweden, 1985<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown girl, demonstration in front of the Parliament building, Ljubljana, 1991<\/em>
\nText on the drawing: I want my brother back home!!!!
\n(Thanks to Muzej novej\u0161e zgodovine\/National Museum of Contemporary History)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWomen in Black, Belgrade, 1991<\/em>
\nText on the drawing: Women in black against war<\/p>\n

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\nUnknown woman, the march to end rape culture, USA, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown woman, Allslovene riots, Murska sobota, 2012<\/em>
\nText on the drawing: How to survive with 0\u20ac per month?<\/p>\n

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\nAhed Tamimi, West Bank, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown woman, anti-government protests, Seoul, South Korea, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown girl, demonstration in memory of the victims of Pinochet’s regime, Santiago, Chile, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown woman, protest against a total ban on abortion, Poland, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown women, march in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, London, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nGreta Thunberg, school strike for climate, Sweden, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nAlaa Salah, anti-government protests, Sudan, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nUnknown woman, May Day demonstration for workers’ rights, Gaza, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Briga me za konec sveta \/ I can’t be bothered with the end of the world<\/em> exhibition view at Ravne Gallery, 2019<\/p>\n

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