You are a beautiful person

Tanja Dabo

Graduated from the University of Rijeka, Fine Arts Dept. in 1997, and completed the MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2003. Lives in Zagreb and Rijeka (Croatia) and works as a senior teaching assistant at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka. Works in a medium of installation, photography, video-performance and video art/experimental film. Since 1993. took part in a number of group and solo exhibitions, projects, festivals and curatorial concepts internationally (Zagreb, Berlin, Sheffield, Torino, Linz, Edinburgh, Kassel, New York, Istanbul etc.).

Ti si prekrasna osoba, video installation , HR, 2006

T. Dabo: You are a beautiful person

The topic of the film You are a beautiful person is the human desire and need to 'be good', 'be straight', and is at the same time a provocation for detecting the digression, deformation and deviation from the model of the perfect man. The film is an ironic glance at our readiness to always rather believe the flattery of others than question our own qualities and face ourselves.
In the form of an installation, the work communicates with viewers directly and personally, while trying to flatter them, but at the same time questioning our own idealization of ourselves.

tags: Tanja Dabo | Croatia | 2006

at videomedeja in: 2007 → media installations

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