Martina Petrovic is a balkan artist and adventurist. She is currently working and living between Antwerp and Belgrade. At the moment she is doing postgraduate studies at a.pass Research Center in Brussels, a unique space for developing art research keeping her status of eternal student since 2006.

Her art mainly focuses on the exploration of socially generated emotional conditions such as grief, but also precariousness, pressure, angst, animosity, etc. in relation to the loss of values, the damage made to the environment and a sense of misplacement. She is currently working on the artistic project The Last Straw which focuses on environmental grief. Which she is exploring through participatory performative rituals. Which opened a new route in her journey, she is ready for being in love,exploring love, practicing it, finding it and sharing it. Stay tuned…

The Meaning is a sixth part of the cycle The Last Straw.The Last Straw is a series
of mourning rituals for the disappearance of the world as we know it. It is common
to experience grief in six stages (Denial, Bargaining, Sadness, Anger, Acceptance and Meaning) hence the six stages of The Last Straw. It will be performed on 12th
of February, 2021, in the collective exhibition Garden of Delights in De Kunsthal.

The sixth stage of grief: The Meaning. It is a particularly difficult one, it seems unreachable and impossible to grasp. What meaning could come from loss? Maybe our loss can bring us closer to each other, maybe it can unify us, maybe it can re-awaken our hope and faith, and deepen our sense of belonging. The Meaning phase invites the audience to take part in reconstruction of the grieving space, it gives an opportunity to empower this magical space with their words and presence, to share a moment of
re-creation and a new beginning.

The Meaning ritual will finalize the first cycle of grieving for The Last Straw.
It will bind all the emotions, and struggles of the previous phases together and lay down fertile ground for transitioning to the second cycle of The Last Straw.