LETRICIJA LINARDIĆ
STILL STANDING




three-channel video installation - 2.64" / camera and editing: S. Stanić; music: JMZM, Rite; operator Hi speed Weisscam: M. Pulek; technical support: I. Vranjić; dim: 250 X 444 X 250 cm/
višekanalna video instalacija - 2.64" / kamera i montaža: S. Stanić, glazba: JMZM, Rite; operator Hi speed Weisscam: M. Pulek; tehnička pomoć: I. Vranjić; dim: 250 X 444 X 250 cm/
„… in her work Still Standing, which at first glance speaks of a very personal emotional everyday experience related to the work environment colored by belittling and other unacceptable behavior that has become domesticated in work environments, verbal blackmail, pressure, insults, threats that people use with the aim of gaining personal benefits and at the same time not being socially denounced. It is for this reason that the importance of Letricija Linardić's artistic work is in pointing out this form of socially tolerated and often valued as profitable and successful. By placing her work, a three-channel video installation in the corner of the exhibition space, the artist occupies a clean and uses the spatial language readable in the spatial and symbolic sense.
With a clear, precise and personal visual language, the author inscribes emotions into the space. With the poetic language of the video installation, which encompasses three surfaces of one corner, the front and side walls and at the same angle, she forms an angle into which she is pushed as a woman, an artist, a worker. The installation shows the author being splashed by jets of water. The artist, enduring the water showers, remains calm, pointing to the omnipresent culture of aggression. By agreeing to it, we often declare ourselves brave and capable of suffering a lot, and in the desire to change this, the author points to a view from a different angle."
(Davorka Perić - foreword from the catalogue of the exhibition From the Other Angle at the Koril Gallery, December 2023.)
„…u svom radu Still Standing koji na prvi pogled govori o vrlo osobnom emotivnom svakodnevnom iskustvu vezanim uz radno okruženje obojeno omalovažavanjem i drugim neprihvatljivim ponašanjem koje se udomaćilo u radnim sredinama, verbalne ucjene, pritisci, vrijeđanja, prijetnje kojima se ljudi koriste s ciljem stjecanja osobnih koristi i pritom ne budu društveno prokazani. Upravo iz tog razloga važnost umjetničkog rada Letricije Linardić je u ukazivanju na taj oblik društveno toleriranog i često vrednovanog kao probitačnog i uspješnog. Umjetnica postavom svog rada, trokanalne video instalacije u kut izložbenog prostora, zauzima očiste i koristi prostorni jezik čitak u prostornom i simboličkom smislu.
Jasnim, preciznim i osobnim vizualnim jezikom autorica u prostor upisuje emocije. Poetskim jezikom video instalacije koja obuhvaća tri površine jednog kuta, čeoni i bočni zid te pod istog kuta, formira kut u koji je ugurana kao žena, umjetnica, radnica. Instalacija prikazuje autoricu koju zapljuskuju mlazovi vode. Umjetnica podnoseći vodene pljuske, ostaje mirna, ukazujući na sveprisutnu kulturu agresije. Pristajući na nju često proglašavamo sebe hrabrim i sposobnima da puno pretrpimo, u želji da se to promijeni autorica upućuje na pogled iz drugog kuta.”
(Davorka Perić - predgovor iz kataloga izložbe Iz drugog kuta u Galeriji Koril, prosinac 2023..)