A scream for belonging is all around, but the loudest in Teardrop, where he embraces his uncertain position as an emerging artist in a foreign country by evoking the unimaginable parallel between two completely different entities with the same denominator: protection and safety. In the video performance, the artist stands on a cliff gazing at the sea horizon of some ‘foreign soil’ during his schooling and yells the following two words: Mama and MOMA. Two opposing aspects – mama, as an intimate symbol of security and refuge, and MOMA as a paradigmatic example of a longing to belong to an established system of art - permeate each other and disappear in the vast breadth of the natural environment, enhancing the impression of futility.

Text: Ana Ivanovič