SONJA RADAKOVIĆ
Born in 1989
The body represents the conceptual pivot, the tool and the chosen medium of Sonja Radaković’s research. Through video, photography and especially live performance, the young Belgrade-based artist investigates the boundaries of morality, taste and social norms, using her own and others’ bodies to define novel relational possibilities. By exploring seduction, narcissism, voyeurism and desire for self-determination, Radaković thus questions her own identity as a woman and artist, highlighting the contradictions of the mechanisms through which society exercises its control or makes its own judgment. The performance Occupied (2021) takes place physically in interstitial, non-conventional spaces between public and private. Radaković and a group of performers enact a paroxysmal performance of everyday gestures, at first sight ordinary, but which a persisting repetition makes alienating and disturbing. Visible in part live and in part in live streaming, the actions and performers play with the distance between the displayed and the concealed and with the tension between online and offline, in a game of mirrors of everyday life and theatrical representation.