Katarina Zdjelar

AAA (Mein Herz) is a single-shot work showing a young woman simultaneously performing four compositions. While preserving the original style, tempo, and rhythm of the individual works, she maintains the key of the different musical pieces. Silence, music, sound and words alternate and collide. The female protagonist’s face and vocal chords serve as a battleground for the jerky transition between the different tracks. As if the sounds have been continuously torn out of their sockets putting an emphasis on the multiple, fragmented yet simultaneous temporalities which run the economy of her voice and of the composition. As often in Zdjelar’s practice, it is the interruptions that speak, this time in the corporality of the performer’s voice. Her singing is as much about managing the gaps between the tracks as it is about accuracy of performance of such historically, stylistically and linguistically distinct compositions.

Katarina Zdjelar is a graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She is based in Belgrade and Rotterdam. In 2017 Katarina was shortlisted for the Dutch Prix de Rome, and won the Dolf Henkes art prize. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, including at the Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany; The Serbian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy; MACBA Barcelona, Spain; MNAC Bucharest, Romania; De Appel Contemporary Art Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 5th Marrakech Biennale, Morocco; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Toronto, Canada; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands; HMKV in Dortmund, Germany; MuHKA Antwerpen, Belgium and the Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea.