Vladimir Nikolic: Walking with Water, Serbia Pavilion

The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia presents Walking with Water, a solo exhibition of Vladimir Nikolic at the Serbia Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. The show, curated by Biljana Ciric, will explore our own entanglements with the humans and non-humans who inhabit our environment, and their effect upon our own positions and practices in the world. Through two newly created works, 800m (2022) and A Document (2022), Nikolic explores water as an elemental part of our bodies, and a space of connection rather than  separation of bodies. As the artist switches between these two modes, he also switches between two dominant formats and perspectives—vertical and horizontal, a view from afar and a view in which the viewer is situated. Nikolic’s explorations dialogue with technology and nature, reflecting worldviews which are mediated by technology, and those in which the eye remains a direct optical instrument.