"In Him, We Trust" is the last part of a trilogy and the continuation of two previous site-specific works: "Lines, rows, columns (Dormitory)" and "Babylon the processes of taking responsibility for one's own life, active work on oneself and making independent stance from the imposed norms and expectations of society. The works examine the personal relationship on issues of gender identity and integrity, trying to understand and interpret the limits of one's own/female perspectives in perceiving and understanding the otherness - men. In these performative installations, the male body is experienced both as a subject and an object. The durational performance "In Him, We Trust" deals with the topic of trust and re-examines what we believe in through the recreation of the well-known scene of the Last Judgment. Judgment Day represents the beliefs of eschatological religions in the last and final judgment which at the end of history will be performed over people to separate them: the righteous man will receive eternal life as a reward and the sinful man will have the final death as punishment. Performers play the roles from the standard iconography of this composition that becomes alive and moving. The work is intended to be performed once as an eight-hour site-specific performance. It is directly related to the building BITEF Theatre - a never completed cathedral of the Evangelical church.

 

Ivana Ivkovic (born 1979 in Belgrade/Serbia) holds an M.A. degree in Drawing from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Since 2002 she has exhibited in several very successful solo shows in Montreal, Belgrade, New York, Beirut, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Basel as well as many groups show internationally.