
Bojan Šarčević
New Emotional Style, 2020
Marble block, ice cube machine, ice, sound system, carved marble, limestone, birch wood
179 x 81 x 169 cm (70 1/2 x 31 7/8 x 66 1/2 in.)
New Emotional Style was created for the exhibition L’Extime at galerie frank elbaz. A massive marble block is scored with geometric cuts and hosts a functioning industrial ice machine placed...
New Emotional Style was created for the exhibition L’Extime at galerie frank elbaz. A massive marble block is scored with geometric cuts and hosts a functioning industrial ice machine placed atop of it. The term “extime” (extimacy) denotates how even our most intimate feelings can be strange and foreign to us: forms become something other than themselves, mineralogical blocks ingesting machines of artificial refrigeration. Sarcevic’s work explores the technoid fascination of our society today while offering an unsettling relic of a future in which bodies and machines commune with an intimacy so odd that it becomes an extimacy.