Our inheritance is a much broader concept than its symbolic use (or abuse). It is a value that every human being brings within, one that must not be abused or desecrated. It does not tie us down as blind followers of someone's fantasies; instead, it serves as a primordial connection with ourselves, with a sense of the order of things, of unison.

A column made by the roots of already cut olive trees, driven by a humble aspiration to address the history of the place, the past and present. A sculpture, elevated to the status of a monument, that creates a space. In the next future, the artist aims to obtain the necessary permits for an exhibition in a public area characterized as a "non-place."

Artist Bio

Ivana Radovanović (Titograd, 1983). She obtained an MA in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, class of Professor Pavle Pejović. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Dušan Petrović. She is engaged as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. As a Fulbright scholar, she completed a postdoctoral research program at St. John’s University in New York. As an artist-in-residence, she was selected for the Fulbright “Silvermine” program in Connecticut, USA (2019). She presented her works at the international exhibition “Imago Mundi Highlights / Art Theorem # 1”, at the opening of the Imago Mundi Museum in Treviso, Italy (2018). Her project “Čovjek Uomo Human” represented Montenegro at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). She participated in the residency program “ArTwins in Open Spaces” - PAFOS European Capital of Culture (2017). She is the winner of the Award of the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) and the Grand Prix of the 37th Montenegrin Art Salon “13 November” (2015). In 2022 participated in 41. International Symposium of Large-Scale Terracotta Sculpture -TERRA, Kikinda Serbia. She has exhibited independently in America, Austria, Italy, Montenegro and Serbia. She has participated in residency, educational and artistic programs in Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Portugal, Finland, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria and other countries.

photos 1-6 Francesca Migliorin