Keep the shambles running

17.05 - 28.06.2025

Solo show at gallery Untiled, Sofia, Bulgaria

Untiled Gallery is pleased to present Keeping the Shambles Running, a solo exhibition by French-Bosnian artist Marina Stanimirovic, on view from 17 May to 28 June 2025. 
Rooted in personal experiences that evolve into collective narratives, Marina Stanimirovic's practice addresses the interwoven layers of trauma, silence, adaptation, survival, and heritage. Her installations, composed of industrial materials such as steel, glass, silicone, and found domestic objects, explore how personal and cultural heritage is embedded in the everyday and particularly through objects tied to domestic rituals and shared memory.
In Keeping the Shambles Running, Marina Stanimirovic continues her investigation into how violence, both systemic and personal can inscribe itself onto bodies, architectures, and daily life. Marina creates fragmented spatial compositions that resemble the remains of a dysfunctional infrastructure by showing wall-mounted elements, bent steel forms, padded or bound fragments. These sculptural forms echo medical devices, household hardware, and tools of restraint.
Photographs embedded in steel, silicone sheeting, and hand-crafted industrial fittings all speak to the fragility of structure either physical, emotional, or social. One work features a curved steel form anchored to the wall, offering support to a framed image, sheet of glass, and a photograph of an after-dinner scene. Another pairs marble with a mound of sand like a sculptural contradiction of solidity and impermanence.
While the materials speak the language of modern industry, their arrangement suggests a poetics of broken systems and deferred maintenance.

Pictures by Ivo Nedyalkov