"It's ok I know what I'm doing"

“The question perpetually arising from the urban punctum of the contemporary world: “What happens to the frontier once its cartographic line collapses?(1)”, is mutating and becoming even louder as a metaphor. Daily and in all fields, we encounter innumerable, invisible boundaries that we become aware of usually only after we touch them, and only then, faced with endangerment, or the complete collapse, of fictitious freedom, we are finally becoming aware of the environment that shapes and defines it. Living in contemporaneity promises maximum freedom, the possibility of realization, and a free system, all of which turns out to be a fantasy, and the simulacrum of freedom, being the main characteristic of the "control society" of which Deleuze speaks(2), becomes the reality we actually live. Due to that, talking about control means talking about boundaries, which are litmus paper of its potency and strength. Boundaries that we set, ones that are imposed on us, some that we want to respect, the others we are eager to challenge and provoke. The unstable ones, non-existent, tangible, permanent, consequential, necessary, unwanted, porous. Personal, social and emotional. Which attract and repel us. The positions of those who are intertwined and fluid, which we often do not see, but constantly feel. Invisible pressure of invisible boundaries. If we know that the precondition that has to be fulfilled in order for boundary to exist, is the role given to it- to be the zone where two sides are coming together so close they are almost becoming one, simultaneously keeping their integrity and being mutually detrimental and threating to collapse into each other, then boundary is the topos of decision and cognition. In such reality, sentence “I know what I’m doing” becomes an equivalent to “everything is under control” and through words of (self)affirmation and pseudo-certainty, we are in fact speaking up about uncertainties, concerns, doubts, and incapabilities, as well as the necessity of taking actions and responsibilities for them. And if boundaries are synonymous for a place of perpetual inscribing and rewriting then “It’s ok, I know what I’m doing” behaves like polygon, a zone of transintimacy, where boundaries are being noticed, challenged, and inverted, and control is alternately being taken and given. As such, it treats the question of reinscription of individuality and methods of how do we actually “take control” and create subjectivity in an age where is difficult to define what and where are the limits of both?” *A fragment from the curatorial text by Teodora Jeremić Artists: Siniša Radulović, Chitka, Slavica Obradović, Dušan Rajić, Jelena Pantelić, Ma Qiusha, Isidora Krstić, Marko Tirnanić, Rora Blue.
 Curator: Teodora Jeremić @ gallery Reflektor, Užice September 2019