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         Installations
 _Land of Plenty
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_The Power of the Working Class
_The Best Effort
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_The Value of Absence
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         Solo Exhibitions
_2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000 (2020) 
_Land of Plenty (2018)
_Selective Memory (2018)
_Absolute silence does not exist (2017)
_EMPTY PAGE. Protecting our own (2016)
_Selected Works (2016)
_CENTRUM (2015)
_Surplus Production Line (2014)
_Time to Relax (2013)
_The Value of Absence (2013)
_STOCK (2012)
_New Production Structures (2012)

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_The Value of Absence (2013)
_The Paradox of Labour - a reader to the work of Adrian Melis (2021)

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_The Paradox of Art and Labour - Sociopolitical practices as form of artistic expressions

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Last update, Nov 2023
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Supported by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
and Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev.  

The Power of the
Working Class
     (2014)

         Produced in Amsterdam
Interactive Installation
6 bubble machines, wooden structures, printed document

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         Twenty-four different labour rights demonstrations were recorded between 2010-2014 during the anti-austerity movement of 15-M in Spain. The audio is translated into bubbles through a programmed device. The software synchronises the intensity of the protest to the bubble making machine, the louder the audio of the protest is, the more bubbles are produced. ‘Power of the Working Class’ attempts to show the futility of protest within a system that remains unchanging.  

Image: Hors Pistes Festival, L’art de la Révolte, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2016
Photo Credits:  Marco Godoy




Future Generation Art Prize - Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine, 2014
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