Skopje, 31 March 2026 (MIA) - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) will open on Tuesday an exhibition by artist Tanja Balac, presenting her new project "The Body That Remembers Silence" - a multimedia work that explores the relations between memory, silence, and traumatic experience.

The exhibition is structured as a spatial and visual experience that unfolds in two parts: an installation in the exhibition space and a video installation at the screening room. Through minimal but carefully articulated elements – light, color and movement – ​​the author creates an ambiance that calls for heightened perception and inner concentration.

The focus of the project is on the idea of ​​bodily memory – as a silent, often invisible presence that carries and transforms experiences, without necessarily manifesting itself directly or narratively. The project revisits intimate and subtle states, opening up space for their unobtrusive, yet powerful, experience.

With this project, Tanja Balac continues her research, now spanning over three decades, where personal experience intertwines with broader questions of presence, vulnerability, and silence.

The curatorial text for the exhibition was written by London-based curator Alessandra Cianetti, and the exhibition will be opened by Antoanela Petkovska, full professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. 

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