Place:
MUBAM. Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia.
/ Revista Nolens Volens
Foreign Language for Beginners, 2010
Nada Prlja's video project is the outcome of a series of workshops in Centro Penitenciario, a detention facility in Murcia. The project is based on the realities of the
"Tercer Grado" system, a condition set up to allow inmates a form of semi-freedom and reintegration into society. However, it is not fully applicable to everyday reality (especially in relation to illegal migrant inmates). Ten inmates have recorded videos observing their lives under the
"Tercer Grado" system, without the artist¿s direct presence or direction during recording sessions, in order to avoid the "outsider's point of view".
Nada Prlja
1971, Sarajevo. Lives and works in London and Skopje, Macedonia.
Nada Prlja received a Master of Philosophy research degree from the Royal College of Arts, London, UK, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. Prlja is an artist, whose work deals with the complex situations of inequality and injustice in societies, incorporating political and economic issues. Using different media, her projects are multi-layered, site or condition-specific. In 2008, Prlja initiated Serious Interest Agency (SIA), a series of curated art projects and events that explore and question notions of the New European identity, focusing specifically on the interpretation of south-eastern Europe within a global context. Her solo exhibitions have been held at Lakeside Kunstrum, Klagenfurt (2010), MC Gallery, Zagreb (2009), The Museum of City Vzigalica, Ljubljana (2009), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (2008) and National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje (2007), and her work has been seen in groups shows at David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2009), Skuc Gallery/Ljubljana Biennale, Ljubljana (2009), Tina B - Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (2008), Hong-Gah National Museum, Taipei (2008), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2008) and in Berlin, Graz and Zagreb.
