Change the Frame - art that moves

A three-day performative installation Change the Frame, a joint art project by the young painter Andjela Abramovic and the author of textual interventions Julia Castellucci, has been opened in the industrial space of Hangar. This event, which erases the boundaries between image, space, thought and body, presented the audience with one of the most daring artistic experiences of the new generation.

At the opening, visitors were invited to change the usual perception of art. In the darkness of the Hangar space, with light sentences floating on the walls and a blue carpet leading straight into the unknown, the audience had to climb the scaffolding in order to see the artworks at all.

"The lighting is set up so that the paintings cannot be seen from the ground... Only when you climb the scaffolding do you experience the paintings. And if they were in front of you a minute ago, then you experience them in the right way," said Andjela Abramovic.

Her works, emotional and intuitive, are exhibited on the floor, while visitors become actors - elevated and illuminated, placed on a "pedestal". "I don't want to make exhibitions on white walls, with white light. I want the audience to be at the center. I create for them, not for buyers, critics or gallerists", the artist added.

Together with Castellucci, who intervenes in the space by projecting mental representation - sentences, Andjela brings an artistic manifest: change the frame. This is not just an exhibition - it is a call for change. "Changing the frame is an art that does not show, but moves," the artist's statement states. The installation does not provide answers, but creates conditions for questions.

One visitor described the experience in these words: "This feels like we are in the middle of Los Angeles. Outside the sun, inside it is pitch-black, an industrial environment, and then there is art, an idea, the inspiration of a young artist in front of you."

Professor Feti Dautovic, a prominent theorist and lecturer at Belgrade and foreign universities, stated after the opening: "Andjela has cast all men in the shade - both in quality and quantity, and in the high seriousness of her own sensibility reduced to the level of a two-dimensional presentation of visual culture, as well as her own attitude towards this eerie urban reality. She has presented her work in a creative, demanding and original way, and that is why, as a professor at the University of Belgrade and some other foreign universities, I am proud of Andjela and honored that I have the privilege to address you and open my heart on behalf of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, because Andjela is like my child, she is a child of our country who is treading the serious paths of professionals."

"Follow me, there will be more," said Andjela. "Every time you will experience something that takes you out of your everyday life. My art does not take you to a gallery - but outside of reality."