Skopje, 10 September 2025 (MIA) - The exhibition "Desire Might Be, Could Be, As It Always Is, Close To Love", honoring 30 years of cooperation between the United States and North Macedonia, will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) - Skopje on Wednesday and run through October 26. 
 
Curated by Kumjana Novakova, the exhibition is envisioned as notes on unseen collection of desires, in the form of an artistic research into the possible, said the MoCA. 

"This is only one of the many thinkable archival and documentary interventions into the MoCA-Skopje’s visible and invisible collection... Through a speculative take on the history of the Museum’s collection, initially responding to American and USA based presences, and the potential relationships between the art spaces of the USA and first Yugoslavia, then North Macedonia, so to critically look at the spaces of making and open possibilities for the multiple pasts to be treated as open-ended (non)regimes," reads the press release.

According to the MoCA, the exhibition gathers archives, works and thoughts of Sarai Sherman, Jasper Johns, Ann Chernow, Burt Chernow, Christo Javašev, Metka Krašovec, Tadeusz Mislowski, Luis Camnitzer, Jeff Russell, Petar Hadži Boškov, Robert Jankuloski, Dunja Ivanišević, Janaki and Milton Manaki, Blagoja Drnkov, Roland Baladi, Diana Thompson, and Kumjana Novakova.  

The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and the Embassy of the United States.  

"Its realization was generously supported by the State Archives, National Cinematheque, and the USA National Academy of Design," the press release adds. 

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