The work of Ivana Radovanović, "Oh future time, are you estranged from me" consists of two units - two reliefs in bronze bordered with sugar cubes and a live video. The reliefs are details taken from an executed sculpture / sugar obelisk in space, while the video continually broadcasts live and memorises the physical process of sugar sculpture happening in the open space. This transformation process in which the sculpture physically reacts to its natural environment (weather conditions, attracted insects, etc.) is an exciting and powerful image of a continuous transformation, reshaping, deformation of shape and its content into something else and different. The system of natural, organic processes, which the sugar sculpture itself undergoes in relation to existing natural ambience, in fact examines the established iconic, heroic, victorious identity of the obelisk. This inconspicuous but continuous process of transformation nullifies and demystifies its ethics. Formally and associatively, with its architectonics of sugar cubes, it retains the plastic monumentality, but contextually emanates exactly the opposite, the idea of porosity, decay, and finally, Vanitas. The reliefs in bronze are prints or traces of some captured, halted moment in this continuous and ambiguous process. In a way, they became the memory of the sugar obelisk, its form, i.e. its plastic anatomy, although they were subdued to an absolute formal and substantive autonomy. In such processes of the most diverse artistic research, this work contributes to the context of the established theme by understanding and comprehending the various processes of transformation and its uncertainties in the broader discourse of existing social circumstances.

art historian
Milica Bezmarević