The issue of representation of gender difference in visual culture
and art in the Balkans is the main concern of this book. Its
central claim is that gender difference needs a discourse that
would examine the affirmative ways and processes of constructing
new subjectivities rather than mere subjection and oppression.
While the prevailing constructionist assumptions posit the subject
as always already subsumed to a pre-established symbolic order, in
her research Suzana Milevska focuses on visual materials that allow
for alternative readings of the hegemonic regimes of
representation. The book is imagined as a unique archive that is
informed by the overlooked images of gender difference and agency
from the past, and reinterprets them through contemporary art works
conceived as archives of photographs, objects, videos,
installations, and performances. The ambiguous rhetoric of this
imagery gives way to arguments that deconstruct the prescriptive
concept of the archive as a repository dedicated to guarding and
preserving identity and truth. Particularly relevant are the
examples of representation of female agency that question the
assumptions of patriarchy as a fixed homogenous system.
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