Saša Tkačenko’s Letter to Low by Alexander Leissle, for ArtReview.

Tkačenko’s I Could Live In Hope at Eugster || Belgrade remembers the slowcore band, and a past he can never retrieve.

‘Low was an American indie rock band from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993 by Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker.’ This is the only information presented in Serbian artist Saša Tkačenko’s exhibition I Could Live in Hope, titled after the band’s 1994 debut album. The sentence is acetone-printed small onto a pale brown plasterboard, a poster-sized work titled The Band (all works 2024). Perhaps it’s the only information you need. After all, Tkačenko’s show is an exploration of absence, of looking at the place where nothing is, or rather, where nothing is anymore.

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Saša Tkačenko currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. His artistic practice engages spaces and their transformation when exposed to other media, as their architectural features interact with sculpture, video and installation. Tkačenko’s works thus create dynamic situations in which the audience plays a constituent part, often reflecting on motives and stories from popular culture and contemporary human life. He has been exhibiting since 2008, including shows at institutions such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Basel Social Club, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania, Times Museum Guangdong, ACP – Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, Belgrade City Museum, Künstlerhaus Bremen, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art New York, Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte di Contemporanea Torino. Tkačenko participated in artist-in-residence programs at ISCP in New York and T.I.C.A-AirLAb Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. His works were shown at art fairs such as Liste Art Fair Basel, Rewriting our imaginations organised by LISTE, Art Geneve, Flash Show Budapest, Not Cancelled (online). His works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and Telenor collection of contemporary art.