2014 January with/in/significant other by Işın Önol, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Austria, deals with the politics of recognition, focusing on the question of how the notion of otherness is perpetually being generated, reproduced and normalized within our normative societies and the strategies within which the artists, litterateurs and avant-garde thinkers embrace the suppressed dark image, which is the subaltern, the unsolicited, the uncanny, the disregarded, the overlooked; the dark and insignificant other under the violence of the glittering power. It invites artists who communicate with the invisible and insignificant other to put in an effort to make them noticeable and significant in the eye of the viewer.
2014 January, “Small Things” (with capital letters) Cultural center AKSC, Skopje
2013 September, MOMI “Multitude, Deity, Birth” in CIC-Cultural Informative Centre of R. Macedonia in Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 June “Multitude, Deity, Birth” MOMI exhibition in The Cultural Centar of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 June, MKC, Skopje, Nomination for the annual young artist award “Denes” with 3 other artists,
Exhibition of drawings on wall ”Welcome on board” and 5 min. video “drilling to 20 000ft” made from photos from a drilling well
2011 May, MALA GALERIJA – Skopje,
A visual story about stay on Ensco 72 gas platform currently located in The North Sea.
2009 November, Art I.N.S.T.I.T.U.T. space – Skopje,
Action and installation “Hair prints” – of 50.000 bags filled with human hair installed to represent a Dna print. “Hair prints” is an action of cutting and packing pieces of human hair, as a process of taking individual information, questioning the natural and artificial. A continuation of the long term project “99 % Natural”
Exhibition of drawings and promotion of a book of art “Pocketpedia of Human Trafficking In The 21 Century” (a product of two years research project)
2008 July, MAGOR, BOOK KAFE – Skopje,
Invitation for the promotion of the book of art “Pocketpedia of Human Trafficking In 21 Century” (result of two years research)
The informative “Pocketpedia” represents short review of events in all the continents, especially in the crises regions; it contains testimonies, statistics, actions, and reactions of governments, organizations and groups, statements of institutions, which are fighting against trafficking with people. I used newspaper articles, Internet stories, drawings that I made out of photos. Today human traffic is deeply infiltrated in the modern society, so this “Pocketpedia” introduces of all the types of this inhuman trade. One of my main goals is to reach the whole public in order to disclose the number of victims of trafficking and the billions of profits that are realized out of their abuse.
Research project and photographs “Center city beggars”
2008 May, FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER – Skopje
5 short individual stories of children living on the streets.
Installation and performance “ 99 % Natural ”
2007 May, MAGAZA - Cultural center of Bitola,
Collecting materials of natural origin, parts of human hair packed in small plastic bags unequivocal points to confrontation between natural and unnatural, the synthetic. The question of life sense in present, modern surrounding when by genetic engineering is possible to provide a situation in which what we learned in a lifetime should be transferred in the future, so our destiny would be filled earlier.
Through hermetic packing of hair in plastic bags points to the plethora from the today’s synthetic and also offers the assumption and the possibility that it could be exchanged - hermetical packing can take only 1% and the rest to be natural, questioning: Which is the next step in the era of massive cloning and manipulating, which bring dangerous mutations? Will it be a stressed need for improving the men itself by opening questions and dilemmas connected with cloning and all criminal actions connected with it or will decide the other step, leaving the possibility away of genetic manipulation. Accepting the condition, because “Alea iacta est” – genetic dice is thrown and all that we learned in a lifetime and it’s placed in our DNA could move our last apprehend of reality - but will it be better to know our talents and weaknesses earlier?
