“Tenderness is Reserved for the Unpredictable” a mirror and time-based performance by Sanjeshka and Dejana Pupovac
staged simultaneously at Chiesa esterna, Monastero di Santa Maria Assunta in Cairate (VA) and at Dejana Pupovac’s art studio in Brooklyn (NY), on the 18th of September 2022
A sculpture designed by Sanjeshka to functionally and symbolically accompany falling peels of root vegetables, sits in the center of the space at Santa Maria Assunta Monastery in Cairate. Between 2.00 pm and 8.00 pm, different performers take turns peeling potatoes and apples, one by one, atop the structure, allowing the peel to fall as it may. Giacomo Vanelli provides a musical accompaniment of modulating phonographic recordings and samples of the organist Nin, a soundscape of continuous and random rhythms throughout the evolution of the work.
Repetitiveness is transposed by Dejana Pupovac to another performative action at her studio in Brooklyn where she hosts several artists as performers. Here a sculpture, structurally repetitive and suspended, dialogues with the performers and their continuous and protracted gestures of unstitching discarded clothes between 8.00 am and 2.00 pm EDT.
https://contemporaryattitude.com/exhibitions-sanjeshka-dejanapupovac-tendernessisreservedfor