RELAPS

End.
2020.10.28 / 02.43.19
Rewind.
A look in the rearview mirror. What a paradox, you see
back to see what's coming.
Good old Marshall.
Counterintuitive insights.
2018. We exhaled, but we did not hear a noise.
2019. Posters, multiplied. As optional
year. Public spaces, potential for
micro vandalism.
Unfortunately, none of that. For now.
We are in the same place again. Autumn is coming
towards foggy, polluted, barely visible urban areas
landscapes.
Will we breathe again?
Can we?
Relapse.
Relapse?
Medical condition. Epidemic year.
A dictionary definition will not help us much.
Not even a fun epigraph. Maybe an epitaph.
Once, now a long time ago, I said that, to another
place.
Footnote.
At the bottom of the page. Margin.
In the same place, again. We always come back to
something, willingly or unwillingly.
Once, let it be for the better.
Carp. Back, in the same place after 14 years.
However, somehow different.
Listening to the old tapes.
Static image. Staring into space. And everything is in
movement.
Everything goes somewhere. More sort of cyclical.
The image returns to its place.
From the atelier, to the catalog, to the gallery and back.
A circle on an empty stage.
Until next time.
But it's never the same.
In fragments, on the surface, on the margins.
The background is solid, the space stable.
The figures are fluid, they spread like stains.
Short titles, language gap.
A new space opens.
We exhale again.
And again, about the picture:
"The image is a phenomenon that in different ways
resolves and/or complicates ours
relationship with reality, like a kind of map
for orientation or as a screen behind which they are
hides something." – VJ
Footnote.
From the exhibition of Ivan Ivanovski titled
"Exhale" at Montage Gallery, November
2018.
Fast forward.
"The exhibition titled 'Relapse' is complex
a whole composed of several series of pictures in
different formats that in an interesting way
intertwine on the gallery walls, but
especially through specific fragmentation
in the catalog. Ivan Ivanovski sets one
key question about man's position in
the urban environment, as a marginal element,
about the disorientation, about the attempts to understand
time in the post-historic present. And
certainly for the analog image in the digital one
world, which opposes its long ago
announced death, and is in an active relationship with
other images, associatively building a language which
makes our dehumanization visible,
but at the same time it is opposed through
psychedelic playfulness of the elements"
A snippet for a future review.
A relapse?
"Everything will be alright" - Cooperation
Vladimir Jancevski.

Skopje. In thick fog.
Date: "the end is in the beginning"