Marjetica Potrč
Road to Prishtina

2005

EB66

5-color screen print
100 x 70 cm

Edition of 100, signed and numbered
Edition A: 55 copies (numbered 1/55 - 55/55, all in portfolios)
Edition B: 35 copies (numbered I/XXXV - XXXV/XXXV)
10 Artists Proofs (numbered AP 1/10 - AP 10/10)

350 Euro (Edition B)

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part of portfolio Love It or Leave It
Screen print by Marjetica Potrc. Roughly colored, simple sketch of two buildings, fenced in with barbed wire. A car in front of it on the street, below it is written: AN INDIVIDUAL IS THE SMALLEST STATE. BUT AM I A CITIZEN? ARE WE A SOCIETY?

    „I believe that architecture is a living language. You can read it. By reading architecture you can understand the value systems of the people who build it. The case study of the Prishtina House is a good example.“1
    The four-color screen print is a sketch for the architectural case study Prishtina House, which in turn is based on a photograph of a real house. In it, Potrć examines the kind of individualistic defense architecture that emerged in Kosovo after the political changes of the 1990s. “After the collapse of modernism, the citizens of Prishtina began building their houses in a wide range of styles, each expressing the taste of the owner. Prishtina House is an example of personal orientalism. Personal styles are the expression of a fragmented society. In Prishtina, the citizens have become the smallest state.”2
    Text: Eva Scharrer

    1 https://www.potrc.org/project1.htm

    2 https://www.potrc.org/project1.htm