…by means of rearranging and transforming logos of various banks and their advertising slogans, billboard or magazine photos, photos downloaded from a ‘bank of images’ on the Internet, pop and rock lyrics/chorus on the subject of love, short newspaper articles, and even Jenny Holzer’s work/statement, Lana ponders over everyday life experience and thematises social relations as communication relations, i.e. some continuous operations of decoding images and texts. In case of the works from her cycle/exhibition Ltd.,we might say that Lana focuses her attention mainly on the issue of trivializing and using up signs and their potential meanings, and reducing those consumed signs into mere molds. We recognize three main topics in Lana’s latest works: places/behavior, language/communication and faces/identities. In the scope of modern theories and studies on culture, places are defined as an organized and organizing, by-context-determined and contextualizing system, which has both metaphorical and symbolic meanings. In Lana’s works, those places are islands, flat and house interiors, then impersonal corporate offices – sceneries saturated by some stereotype projections of hedonist, luxurious escapism and social status hedonism i.e. financial power and ups and downs on the social scale. As such, these sceneries represent the ‘offer’ of a globalized media culture i.e. they represent products of a tendency towards the standardization of global corporate and multinational capital. Language shows our reality through conventions and habits upon which we construct models of presentation. Their meanings are established by conventions and contextual determinants, and a society creates concepts of its own reality via constantly changing processes of verbalization and representation. Lana’s works point out some of those processes: how popular culture is trying to give some new ‘definitions’ of love which actually have nothing to do with the very concept of love the aforementioned type of culture is trying to describe/determine; how that intimate tone in commercials is turning into an echo of alienated communication; how short narratives, shaping our everyday life, are being integrated into the tissue of the media-shaped world only thanks to their excessive nature. Jasmina Čubrilo / from the catalog