MARKO TADIĆ / Manuals of Sensemaking
PRESENTING THE EKO 8 ART PROJECTS
MARKO TADIĆ / Manuals of Sensemaking, 2021
site-specific installation, MTT, Melje, mixed media, furniture found at the factory, archival images
courtesy of the artist
Seeking out components and items of furniture from the recent history of textile production, Zagreb based, Croatian artist, Marko Tadić has devised a new installation in response to the textile producing spaces of the MTT factory, using the factory, chairs, filing trolley, office cabinets and inscribing them with new meanings. Using a method that could be likened to a form of excavation and of recovery, the empty containers and furniture become part of the display and here serve as pedestals for the presentation of a broken history. Using sourced photographic images from the MTT textile archive, this arrangement of worked images and bricolage allude to stories of the deep time and of seized machinery. The etched surfaces of his drawings, collages, and assemblages trace a story of seismic shifts, of tectonic scale movements, of spaces of labour now fallen silent, and also, of stories of the earth and of ecological boundaries being transgressed. Fragments of the archive repeat and recur like reverberations heard deep underground. As Tadić's drawings and objects allude to rhythm, to syncopated and repeated sounds, and yet here, nothing can be heard. Time, seized. All is bricolage and ceased of its original purpose in this compendium of manuals, instruction guides, maintenance documents to machines of production now in a state of suspended animation or entirely absent. With his sequence of scaled images arranged in a variety of sizes, animated forms enliven the worn historical surfaces, further underlining quite how time remains 'out of joint'.
Marko Tadić (b. 1979, Croatia) studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. His artistic practice is in drawing, installation and animation. He continues to explore his long-term interest in the legacy of modernism. Using found images and animation techniques to stage a narrative oscillating between document and action, Tadić unfolds haunting visual sequences. His art installation and animations act as a panorama of achronological time, suspended between history, memory and future projections.
