Book presentation: "All Art is a Political Statement" / A. Lekić Fridrih

*In English

We warmly invite you to the presentation of the book "Arijana Lekić-Fridrih: All art is a political statement" (Disobedience Press, 2024), in the presence of author Rebeka Modrak and artist Arijana Lekić-Fridrih, which will take place in Prostor on May 5 at 7 p.m.

'Arijana Lekić-Fridrih: All Art is a Political Statement' (Disobedience Press, 2024.) introduces audiences to the work of Croatian artist Arijana Lekić-Fridrih and, in particular, to her Silent Mass, a performance resisting the “Be Manly” movement, a series of mass prayer events held in Croatian public squares by a battalion of men who pray for the abolition of women’s rights, for women’s “chastity,” and for men’s “masculine authority.” All Art is a Political Statement links the erosion of women’s rights across intercontinental boundaries and offers Lekić-Fridrih’s multimedia art as a guide for activism against retrograde restrictions on the freedom of women.
The event is in English.

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Arijana Lekić-Fridrih was born in Zagreb, where she currently lives and works. She has a degree in Film and Video from the Fine Arts Academy in Split. She has worked as a screenwriter for a documentary series and is director of two short documentary films, "Online" and "The Parade," but her work is currently focused on video and performance art. She regularly exhibits her work in Croatia and abroad.
Rebekah Modrak is an artist and writer whose practice is at the intersections of art, activism, and creative resistance to consumer culture. Her web-based artworks, such as Re Made Co. and RETHINK SHINOLA critique brand misrepresentation. Recently, she co-edited "Trouble in Censorville: The Far Right’s Assault on Public Education – and the Teachers Who are Fighting Back" (Disobedience Press, 2024), a collection of testimonies by 14 educators who were fired or smeared for teaching about racial justice or providing books about/by LGBTQ+ people. She is co-editor of "Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts" (Belt, 2021) in which twenty writers from philosophy, psychology, consumer culture, and other fields consider humility as a state of being. She is professor of art, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.