Dušica Dražić & doplgenger

Dušica Dražić is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Antwerp. She researches the interrelationship of place and its users, rethinks them at the level of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. Dušica is interested in methods of knowledge production concerning social, political and aesthetic changes of (public) space.

Currently she is involved in long-term artistic research that is synthesized in the development of the film It Rains Differently. At the core of the artistic research lies a man-made forest and the process of its creation through collective volunteer labour in Yugoslavia over ten years, from 1978 till 1988. The film is a meditation on collective labour, on the social and political imaginaries that fulfil themselves through the form of the Pešter forest that is in a state of constant evolution and only through that manages to persist through all the changes.

During her residency at MORPHO, she is joined by doplgenger, an artist duo from Belgrade, composed of Isidora Ilić and Boško Prostran. The practice of doplgenger revolves around the relation between art and politics by exploring the regimes of moving images and the modes of their reception. Dušica and doplgenger will be researching the film archive of the Museum of Yugoslavia, a collection of amateur and non-amateur films that Josip Broz Tito received as gifts, as well as media and home movies that were made during the reforestations of Pešter.

Dušica has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and screenings, and has initiated and (co-)curated collaborative projects and exhibitions. Since 2018 she, together with Wim Janssen, founded and leads OUT OF SIGHT in Antwerp, dedicated to experimental, audio-visual and time-based practices. In 2020 she joined wpZimmer’s team as a creative producer and artistic collaborator.

The development of the film It Rains Differently is supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF), KAAP, STUK and MORPHO, produced by Escautville. doplgenger’s residency at MORPHO is realised in collaboration with Out of Sight, supported by Culture Moves Europe (funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut) and the Flemish government.