Petra Matić

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Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.

NONALIGNED MOVEMENT: AFTER YUGOSLAVIA*
Two things poems Teach: Death of the body- Best accept it. Death of the heart- Better not.
Forgetting to Remember, Toplocentrala Gallery - Cube, Exhibition, Authors: Simina Neagu, Voin de Voin, Petra Matic, Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, Curators: Simina Neagu, 06-15 December 2024, Opening 6.12.2024., 18:00 hour
A suitcase made of aluminum printing plates and coppervire stitches with an engraved Louis Vuitton logo and the words "NATIONAL BUDGET" on it
Map of Africa with "African voices" names on it: Onyekachi Wambu, Njoki Ngumi, Afolasade Adewumi, Flower Manase, Prince Folarin Shyllon, Chimamanda Ngozi, Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Wazi Apoh, Nosmot Gbadamosi, Mobutu Sese Seko, Sylvie Njobati, Florence Mulagula, Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, Faustin Linyekula, Achille Mbembe, Vicensia Shule Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Salome Kiwara-Wilson, Donald Deya, Eromo Egbejule, Kwame Opoku, Molemo Moiloa, Bonaventure Ndikung, George Okello Abungu, Frezer Getachew Haile, El Hadje Malik Ndiaye, Ekpo Eyo, Peju Layiwola, Kodzo Gavua, Princess Marilyn Douala Bell, Felwine Sarr, Ngaire Blankenberg, Sylvie Njobati, Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, Onyekachi Wambu, Ciraj Rassool, Zacharys Anger Gundu, Rudo Sithole, Afolasade Adewumi, Chief Ne Kuko, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Ore Disu, Aba Mansah Efiya-Dzidzienyo
Sunset over Accra. In the forefront is a yard with a few trees. On the left there's a traintrack, on the right there's a road, different houses and buildings and a lot of vegetation. The first street lights are on.
Open window with a view of a stone beach, a palm tree and the sea that took thousands to the New World, in case they survived.
A table in a green forest, where four hands are sifting and mixing wild clay gathered from the site.
International Student Friendship Club in Zagreb, probably 1960s. International and local students performing together on the stage, wearing traditional clothes.
An opened styrofoam container with a plastic bag full of shito sauce, and filled with waakye, garu, spaghetti, and plantain.