Dislokacija – kreativni potencijal lokacije
Dislocation – A Creative Potential of Location

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the essay raises the question on the meaning of a white canvas and the creative potential contained in it. In fact how does the “zero degree,” the white square in a painting canvas discussed by Kazimir Malevich, contain in itself the fullness of the beginning and the utopian ending of the history when history unifies itself through the whiteness – the emptiness of fullness. Muhamed Bajramović, the artist from Zenica, used the meaning of the white canvas to emphasize parergon – that which signifies surplus, an addition to the painting – such as the dust falling on its surface. This dust is in fact that what we usually do not see or are not supposed to see, according to the conventional postulate of looking, and the artist Bajramović is exactly trying to make that visible. However that is not just any dust but the industrial dust which is for decades polluting and endangering lives of people living in Zenica. The second part of the essay raises the question about the art of Socialistic Realism which aimed to change the world through the worker-warrior figure. In fact, the painter Tomislav Perazić used to portray workers in the Zenica so actually he was the painter- worker who was producing a new socialist man. The question is how to reevaluate the creative potential of the socialistic realist art today, in the time of transition and death of communism.

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