The entire collection consists of
23 figurines with age tags
1 skull fragment
6 catalogs
1 movie (duration: 21 minutes, 24 seconds) in Croatian with English subtitles and two trailers
Website with all the details about the figurines (with photos and texts)
The size of each figurine can be found on the website, as well as sound of each made as an instrument can be listened to.
https://magkip.wixsite.com/venus-figurines
The collection has been exhibited in the Centre of culture Korčula, with ceremonial opening on the 29th of May, 2024
video of the exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z2LQ7bsYDo
All the figurines are made of terracotta, and the "skull fragment" is plaster.
I'd prefer to talk about the way of displaying the collection.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
While working on the series "Venus Figurines of the Pelješac" , I wanted to experience part of the work of an archaeologist, to immerse myself in the role of a historian and journalist, in order to remind the observer not to believe everything he sees.
"Fake news" is a term that originated in the late nineteenth century, and refers to news that is presented as real through various media, with the aim of damaging the reputation of the subject, making money, and intimidating or manipulating the public. When searching for "fake news ai", search engines also offer numerous "fake news" generators that give the user the opportunity to create their own fake news. Pseudoarchaeology is the interpretation of the past by people who are not professional archaeologists and who ignore or "disprove" the theories, analytical methods of the discipline, and the conclusions of professionals. They use artifacts, sites, and collected materials to construct their theories.
From the very beginning, the process of work created the possibility that once the entire project is publicly available, the audience can, using the Internet, find the truth in less than two clicks; see how individual figurines were made, painted, broken, repaired, buried. In the hope that someone would question the authenticity, I shared several videos when they were finished, but that did not happen. All interactions with the materials came from people who believed that the figurines were real.
I was surprised that, even after the opening ceremony where Mrs. Lana Filippi Brkić (dipl.nov.), the headmaster of the Centre of culture in Korčula, held the introduction in the theme of fake news, explaining how these are NOT REAL, people still browsed through catalogs, put them down and thought, "Oh well, what a nice work the archaeologists do so close around us", later asking questions where exactly were they found.
The truth is, I used a fact people were already used to - for the past 20, and intensively so for past 5 years - the archeologists have been constantly discovering something on Pelješac - but all those finds are mostly of Illyrian period; they are much, much younger than supposed Venus figurines would have been - had they really been found.
Archeologists finding another thing on Pelješac? Just another day.
I even used a glimpse of reality in the mockumentary, which made people relax as they watched - those were the facts they already knew.