Dialogue II

Dialogue II  is a part of the exhibition Dialogue I, II and III. Comparing the past with the present, I deconstruct the social position of woman and critically comment on construction of motherhood. Dialogue II is focused to formation of identity and social constructions of motherhood and childhood. Children’s rotating lamp is engraved with 89th Article of Croatian Family Law. Situated next to Meštrović’s sculpture Mother teaches her child how to pray, the lamp projects the text throughout the room. In this way, contemporary State interventions into the relationship between the mother and the child become introduced into the room where Meštrović’s family lived over a century ago. In this way, the work shows temporal and cultural relativity of social construction of motherhood and childhood.

Dialogue II, Technical info: installation / 90 x 40 x 40 cm / rotating electric motor, bulb, stand, laser-cut card

Exhibited: 2015 Dialogue I, II i II, Ivan Meštrović Museums, Split, Croatia, 2014 Dialogue I, II i II, Meštrović Atelier, Zagreb, Croatia