Neli Ružić

NIGDINA

Croatia 2018 17’.

NOWHERE
Experimental film NOWHERE poetically explores the personal level of experience of departure/return and rebuilding identities. Dramaturgy consists of two backbones – a scene portraying a sculpture “Before the dawn” by Neli Ružić and the monument by Bogdan Bogdanović “The Guardian of Freedom”, both of which were set up at the Klis fortress during the different moments in history, given up to entropy and social changes. The conditions in which these sculptures have been found activate the archaeology of time, invisible and erased history.

Neli Ružić
(1966, Split), graduated painting from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade (1990) and completed MA studies at the Facultad de Artes, UAEM, Mexico (2013). Her artistic work explores the overlap of personal and collective memory and oblivion in relation to migration, historic narratives and multiple temporality.
She had 17 solo shows and participated in numerous collective exhibitions, projects and festivals in Croatia and internationally. Her work is part of collections of Museum of Fine Arts Split, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Gallery Marino Cettina, Umag; Canal Mediateca Caixa Forum, Barcelona and were shown in TV series Lucida, Latin video art, Centro de Investigación en Artes Electrónicas de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.She has actively participated in the Croatian art scene until the end of the 90’s when she moved to Mexico. Since 2003 she taught as a professor at ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico City (-2012.); UAEM Cuernavaca, Morelos (-2007.) and coordinated transdisciplinary workshops (2008- 2011) within TRANSITOS, Centro Nacional de las Artes CENART in Mexico City. She returned to Croatia in 2012. She received the Second Award at the T-HTaward@MSU.hr, a scholarship Conacyt, Mexico (2012 -2013) Grant from City of Split (1996), and fellowship ArtsLink (1996) for a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA and Youth Biennale Award, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka (1993).

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