Yesterday we visited the 37th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the largest national exhibition of visual artists under 35. The salon holds a place in various locations in Zagreb: the Mestrovic Pavilion. Still, the central exhibition named The Clock Fell Into Well is located at the Home of the Croatian Association of Fine Arts, also known as the Mestrovic Pavilion. The exhibition, which is open until the 16th of June, is curated by Lovro Japudić, a curator with extensive experience in producing exhibitions, festivals, and other cultural programs.
The Clock Fell Into Well is an exhibition by 30 artists who covered the theme of childhood memories and the current state of the art, covering topics of the virtual world and artificial intelligence.
“Through a broad thematic lens in their works, which include an exceptionally large number of various installations, as well as sculptures, photographs, mosaics, and video works, the artists look for moments of interruption and gaps that free us from imposed temporal frameworks, limitations and demands of the immediate present. (hdlu.hr)
The artists explored the connections of online and offline, included personal memories and narratives. They included their pasts and put it in today’s context as they included audiovisual elements and gadget in their arts. While capturing their daily routines, they questioned digital and mental escapism, passing time, entropy, speculative futures, dispersed emotions, and the inevitable concern for endangered natural resources.
In addition to the main exhibition program, the 37th Youth Salon organized a diverse additional program consisting of performance, film, music, and educational programs as Massa Confusa, a performance by the Spanish collective Institute for Postnatural Studies, a Contemporary Dance performance by This Is Not a Small Dance, the film program by 25 FPS Association, and listening sessions by Heartskomerz and SNOP.
