Marija Šabanović
Marija Šabanović

Audio 1: Marija's story

Audio 2: Apple's story

LOOP
Marija Šabanović and Apple Yi Jiang
2022

The project LOOP focuses on how political systems, in conjunction with traditional cultures, have treated women over time. It investigates how these systems manage to change women and how these changes influence the way women then raise their children, particularly their daughters. Additionally, it explores how a woman's labor, body, and mental state contribute to maintaining the system and at what cost.

Marija Šabanović and Apple Yi Jiang portray these relationships by sharing their personal stories. They investigate whether there are differences related to their countries of origin—Yugoslavia and China. These stories come from two countries with very different cultures but also share more than just a communist past. They span several decades, carefully observing the political circumstances: in Yugoslavia, from WWII through socialism, the breakup of Yugoslavia, and the transition into capitalism; and in China, before and after the Cultural Revolution, the birth control policy, and the economic reforms that opened China’s economy to the capitalist world.

Mixed media such as photography, collage, narration, and display objects

 

Apple Yi Jiang is an architectural designer and a PhD student. Her research focused on multigeneration co-living in China’s ageing society. She received a Master's degree in Architecture at Sejima Studio at the University of Applied Art Vienna. She had been working in several outstanding architectural firms for 7 years after her bachelor's study at the Central Academy of Fine Art. Her interest remains in future living environments and exploring other forms of expression for design, thoughts, and concepts.

Audio 1: Marija's story

Audio 2: Apple's story

LOOP
Marija Šabanović and Apple Yi Jiang
2022

The project LOOP focuses on how political systems, in conjunction with traditional cultures, have treated women over time. It investigates how these systems manage to change women and how these changes influence the way women then raise their children, particularly their daughters. Additionally, it explores how a woman's labor, body, and mental state contribute to maintaining the system and at what cost.

Marija Šabanović and Apple Yi Jiang portray these relationships by sharing their personal stories. They investigate whether there are differences related to their countries of origin—Yugoslavia and China. These stories come from two countries with very different cultures but also share more than just a communist past. They span several decades, carefully observing the political circumstances: in Yugoslavia, from WWII through socialism, the breakup of Yugoslavia, and the transition into capitalism; and in China, before and after the Cultural Revolution, the birth control policy, and the economic reforms that opened China’s economy to the capitalist world.

Mixed media such as photography, collage, narration, and display objects

 

Apple Yi Jiang is an architectural designer and a PhD student. Her research focused on multigeneration co-living in China’s ageing society. She received a Master's degree in Architecture at Sejima Studio at the University of Applied Art Vienna. She had been working in several outstanding architectural firms for 7 years after her bachelor's study at the Central Academy of Fine Art. Her interest remains in future living environments and exploring other forms of expression for design, thoughts, and concepts.