In Your Name
2024
performance
with the artist’s mother Ivana Maricic at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje It took generations
to sharpen this tongue.
It took generations
of our women
to arrive here.
It took countless generations
of women
to arrive at the museum
in this dress,
and reject the dress,
in their name.
After a year of exchanging letters between Serbia and Germany - letters filled with longing, questions, and quiet rebellion - we began shaping a plan to break free from the last name we inherited. We wrote, we sang, and we (re)married - for different reasons, in the same month. In Your Name is our meeting point, where my mother and I folded texts, poems, and promises into one shared performance.
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Photo: Maja Janevska - Ilieva