Skopje, 19 September 2023 (MIA) - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) - Skopje opens on Tuesday an exhibition entitled 'Bitter Sugar' - a multimedia project by Macedonian artist Gjorgje Jovanovik. 

The project is conceived in two parts, a spatial installation and animated puppet shows, designed as fragments of current reality and contemporary life, which contain signs, conditions, and situations questioning at the same time the local context and the influences and interdependencies in the global flows, the MoCA says.

"Conceived as a “total work of art”, the project will use a rich iconographic fundus and a complex network of relationships, combining several artistic disciplines (visual art and experimental film, animation and music), focusing on deepening the interconnections between these art forms, as well as on exploring the possibilities of creating new artistic content. With this project, Jovanovik integrates his entire creative practice, which includes the most diverse media and forms of expression, from drawing and installation to performance," it adds.  

The multilayered and multisensory artistic intervention of this complex project, aims to open a space for re-examination of interpersonal relations, and to speak about the conditions at the local and global level determined by numerous crises and existential uncertainty.

Vladimir Janchevski and Blagoja Varoshanec are the curators of the multimedia project. The exhibition is held with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and the Environmental Research and Information Center "Eko-svest", and will run through February 2024. 

Photo: Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) - Skopje