Neli Ružić je multimedijalna umjetnica koja istražuje percepciju vremena i različite aspekte temporalnosti. Imala je niz samostalnih izložbi i sudjelovala na brojnim izložbama i festivalima u Hrvatskoj, Europi, SAD-u i Latinskoj Americi. Dobila je niz nagrada i stipendija među kojima: godišnja nagrada "Slobodne Dalmacije" za umjetnost "Jure Kaštelan" (2024.), druga nagrada Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite., MSU, Zagreb (2016.), stipendija Conacyt, Meksiko (2012.-2013.); stipendija ArtsLink (1996.) za rezidenciju u Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, SAD. Radovi joj se nalaze u kolekcijama Galerije umjetnina u Splitu, MMSU Rijeka, MSU Zagreb, Galerije Marino Cettina u Umagu. Diplomirala je slikarstvo na Fakultetu primenjenih umetnosti u Beogradu i magistrirala na Facultad de Artes, UAEM, Meksiko. Krajem devedesetih godina odlazi u Meksiko City gdje od 2003. do 2012. godine predaje na ENPEG La Esmeralda. Redovita je profesorice na Slikarskom odsjeku Umjetničke akademije Sveučilišta u Splitu.

Neli Ružić is a multimedia artist who explores the perception of time and various aspects of temporality. She has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many exhibitions, projects, and festivals in Croatia, Europe, the USA, and Latin America. Ružić has been awarded a number of awards and grants including Slobodna Dalmacija Annual Art Award Jure Kaštelan, Split (2024); the second award Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite., Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2016), Conacyt scholarship, Mexico (2012-2013); ArtsLink residency program at Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito, USA (1996). Her works are part of the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Split, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Marino Cettina Gallery in Umag. Ružić graduated in painting from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and holds a master's degree from the Facultad de Artes, UAEM, Mexico. In the late 1990s, she moved to Mexico City, where she taught at ENPEG La Esmeralda, Centro Nacional de las Artes, from 2003 to 2012. She is full-time professor at the Painting Department of the Arts Academy, University of Split.

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Neli Ružić
Disati zajedno (mjerenje kozmosa), 2023. / Breathing Together (Measuring the Cosmos), 2023
multikanalna video-zvučna instalacija / multichannel video-sound installation
Direktor fotografije / Director of photography: Darko Škrobonja, 2021.
Zvučna kompozicija / Sound composition: Carole Chargueron, 2023.

Disati zajedno (mjerenje kozmosa) ambijentalna je video-audio instalacija koja se bavi disanjem, biotemporalnošću i zajednicom. Sastoji se od video zapisa tragova topline ljudskih izdaha te laganog nestajanja maglice koja se zadržava na staklu. Zabilježeni i združeni dahovi šezdesetak ljudi pokušaj su materijaliziranja neuhvatljivog, pulsiranja života, protoka zraka u složenoj, fluidnoj cirkulaciji. Zvučna kompozicija prati ritam pojedinačnih dahova, stvarajući ambijentalnu kompoziciju zborskog višeglasja. 

Disati zajedno (mjerenje kozmosa) mjesto je zajedništva u nevidljivom prostoru razmjene, protoka i molekularne povezanosti. Ambijent zajedničkog disanja ukazuje na krhkost, fragilnost života, ali i vitalnost prostora ko-respiracije. Zbog položaja svjetla, prašina koja je padala na staklo tijekom snimanja, postala je vidljiva, tako da topli otisci dahova polako nestaju u dubokom kozmičkom prostoru sazdanom od čestica prašine koje formiraju različite konstelacije. 

Video snimke dahova nastale su u doba pandemije koronavirusa, kada smo postali svjesni važnosti i opasnosti disanja u zajedničkom prostoru. U situaciji izolacije i iskoraka iz svakodnevne mašinerije proizvodnje, na individualnoj ali i kolektivnoj razini postalo je jasnije da je percepcija protoka vremena ekonomski i tehnološki pa i ideološki uvjetovana. Imperativ produktivnosti, profitabilnosti i kompetencije u kasnom digitalnom kapitalizmu reguliraju naše životne ritmove i izdržljivost. U komprimiranom vremenu kasnog kapitalizma, potisak vremena postaje gotovo opipljiv i gust. Disati zajedno (mjerenje kozmosa) uvodi dah kao mjeru vremena, usporavanje, ritam korespiracije i zajedništva te stavlja u odnos biotemporalnost i duboko vrijeme. 

Breathing Together (Measuring the Cosmos) is an immersive audiovideo installation that explores breathing, biotemporality, and community. It consists of video recordings of the traces of heat from human breaths and the slow disappearance of the fog that remains on the glass. The recorded and combined breaths of sixty people are an attempt to materialize the intangible, the pulsation of life, the flow of air in a complex, fluid circulation. The sound composition follows the rhythm of individual breaths, creating an ambient composition of choral polyphony.

Breathing Together (Measuring the Cosmos) is a communal space where the invisible exchanges, flows, and molecular connections intertwine. The ambient atmosphere of shared breathing indicates the fragility of life, but also the vitality of a co-respiratory space. Due to the position of the light, the dust that fell on the glass during filming became visible, so that the warm imprints of breaths slowly disappear into the deep cosmic space created by dust particles forming various constellations. 

The video recordings of breaths were captured during the coronavirus pandemic, when we became aware of the importance and danger of breathing in a shared space. In a situation of isolation and escape from the daily machinery of production, it became clearer on both an individual and collective level that the perception of the flow of time is economically, technologically, and even ideologically conditioned. The imperative of productivity, profitability, and competence in late digital capitalism regulates our life rhythms and endurance. In the compressed time of late capitalism, the push of time becomes almost tangible and dense. Breathing together (Measuring the Cosmos) introduces breath as a measure of time, slowing down, the rhythm of co-respiration and community, and relates biotemporality to deep time.