TIME TO CHANGE THE RECORD

ZENITA KOMAD
TIME TO CHANGE THE RECORD

Opening: 29. January, 2013, 19h
Exhibition Duration: 30. January – 28. February, 2013

The right wing has been used by the young artist Zenita Komad (born 1980) who created an installation with a densely filled gallery of works on paper in the central room serving as a sort of chapel in which the red threads of the installation come together to create an allusive sign. Symbols, parables, visual metaphors are all important to Komad. As opposed to the more archaic artist, Fox, who also broaches elementary existential issues in his work, the existentialist Komad is certainly more narrative, more full of color and humor. The artist strikes a surprisingly unusual charismatic tone, which becomes particularly noticeable in her text collages and montages. Her texts invite the onlooker to interpret the artist’s world and life views. From the sign language used by the deaf and mute displayed in the form of cast hand poses to the language of cartography and that of symbolic signs (bundling the cords) all the way to a plethora of pictorial quotes and typographical, semantic-semiotic models, Zenita Komad, a “baroque talent”, can really live it up. She pulls her red threads from the different geographical points on a world trade map from the interwar period through a wall and ties them together to create an evocative sign. She opposes the Babylonian confusion of languages and the unjust distribution of rich and poor countries with a utopian vision of a harmonious co-existence.