Artist Until True Death
2009
photograph, performance
11" x 16" (approximately)
Ozone Gallery
Belgrade, Serbia
The artist transforms the aggressive and threatening statement “Skinheads until true death,” apropriated from a Skinhead ideology, into “Artist until true death,” using his own skin as a medium. Changing the subject of a Skinhead declaration into an oath to creativity, the artist contrasts the intimate surface of human skin with the dissemination of fascist ideology. The word “ARTIST” is inked on his body in a typography suggestive of German Fraktur, which has assocations with Neo-Nazi groups. Vojvodić’s artistic and personal act is understood as fiercely opposed to racism, antisemitism, and fascism of this Skinhead subculture.