Milica Tomić focuses on the complex links between the trauma of the loss of Yugoslavian Modernism and the new politics of identity and gender of the Milosević years. She politicizes the biography of her mother as an exemplary
life. The journey leads to her mother’s apartment in a Tito era satellite town on the periphery—taking us past Muslim housing projects from the turn of the century and an apartment block hit by NATO bombs. As if to work through the trauma of this development at the level of the unconscious, Tomic inserts passages of black leader with illustratively noisy sound sequences at breaks in the narrative and switches to slow motion when people whose biographies are linked with that of her mother accidentally walk in front of her.

Milica Tomić

* 1960 in Beograd, SCG
lives and works in Belgrade, SCG

Exhibitions (selection)

2006 Alone/Reading Capital, artspace Sydney, AUS

2005 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, AUS

2005 Reading capital, Charim Gallery, Wien, A

2005 Populism, CAC. The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania/ National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway/ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, /Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, / 2005 „This is Contemporary Art“ (performance), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M., D

2004 Reading capital, Artpace, San Antonio, USA

2003 La Biennale di Venezia, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d´Arte, Serbia and Montenegro pavilion, Venice, I

2003 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR

2002 In search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz A

selected bibliography:

Milica Tomic: Ausstellung in Galerie im Taxipalais, Kunsthalle Wien, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, hrsg. Von Silvia Eiblmayr, Innsbruck 2000

Milica Tomic: The Work of Art in the State of Exile, National Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2003, Belgrade 2003

Hedwig Saxenhuber (hrsg.): Milica Tomic. Erlauf erinnert sich, in: Erlauf erinnert sich, Frankfurt am Main 2004