Adrian Paci

This video which deals with themes of reflection on death and its possible aesthetic interpretation is entitled Vajtojca, the weeper. It documents and testifies the attempt of the artist to construct a live dialogue with the inevi...

Vajtojca

This video which deals with themes of reflection on death and its possible aesthetic interpretation is entitled Vajtojca, the weeper. It documents and testifies the attempt of the artist to construct a live dialogue with the inevitable presence of death. Adrian Paci has drawn inspiration from an ancient custom of the Balcanic regions and is still in use in his village of birth which sees in the mourning of the dead a profession with very precise ritual norms. The video contemplates the co-existence of aesthetic thought and death, of a possible 'happy ending' and a tragic inevitable one. It is his own death that Adrian Paci sets up and for the occasion asks a woman to cry over his body. The professional mourner weeps for the dead for several minutes over the immobile artist who is forced to sustain the pain of his own death. When the rite draws to a close, the story begins anew and as if it were a miracle one is confronted with a resurrection. Adrian Paci rises and thanks the weeper with his own tears and leaves.

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