THE STORY
THE OBJECTS
THE FIT
Jelisaveta Lakić (75)
Jelisaveta grew up in Zagreb (Croatia), where she married a Montenegrin man and moved to Belgrade (capital of former Yugoslavia) when she was around 24 years old. Since then, she has been back to Zagreb several times while it was still former Yugoslavia, but just once after it collapsed.
Her ritual is to wake up naturally at 6 am, to make ‘Turkish’ coffee and to lay in bed while drinking it. She then falls back to sleep while mostly still holding the coffee cup. As a result, all of her bed sheets have coffee stains because they are awfully hard to wash out.
The peculiarity in this ritual lies in Jelisaveta not viewing it as such, it is instinctive in nature. As she is my maternal grandmother, I’ve often witnessed this ritual in our holiday house in Montenegro. This act is how she ‘marks’ her territory, as she does it in several location across the house, literally spilling unconsciously coffee over her bedsheets. Just like dogs mark their territories.
Objects that are a part of her habit: a coffee cup, cup saucer, coffee, gas cooker, džezva (a coffee making device of Turkish origin that is typical to the Balkans), water, sugar, bed, duvet, duvet cover, mattress.
THE SPACE
THE PERFORMANCE
Adrien Mildersstraat 35, 3022NC, Rotterdam
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the mattress-cover-dress
the coffee-stain-duvet-jumper
the pillow-bag