A friend called True Story
2014.
painted wood, 30 × 30 ×12 cm
Contemporary society is burdened with objective values. In order to fit in, the individual becomes a participant in the consumerist-hedonistic way of life. While fulfilling expected social norms, people resort to false, made-up stories. Jurica Mihinjač’s sculpture is inspired by the artist’s personal experience, that is, his acquaintance with a friend called True Story who, in the absence of his own stories, reaches for fictional ones. The sculpture does not mimetically copy reality but represents the artist’s abstract interpretation of false information that manifests itself in color and shape. The work consists of simple geometric shapes and bichromatic coloring, where acid yellow contrasts with black and represents the false words coming out of the speaker’s mouth. The sculpture points out the fact that disinformation does not necessarily have to come from the media or some other, distant sources. Under the pressure of social expectations, our loved ones often succumb to them.
Klara Macolić