19 Oct FIERY GREETINGS, 2015
Six channel digital slide projection with sound (181 photographs and texts from photo-albums sent to Josip Broz Tito from 1945 till 1980; from the archive of the Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade)...
Six channel digital slide projection with sound (181 photographs and texts from photo-albums sent to Josip Broz Tito from 1945 till 1980; from the archive of the Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade)...
The project Fiery Greetings was conceived as a reexamination of the socialist Yugoslavia, its structure, character and legacy, through the prism of construction of the socialist childhood, which is revealed in the photographs from albums sent to Josip Broz Tito....
Installation with 46 pots of the selected plants | Installation with take-a-way posters and archive photograph from the archive of the Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade...
The Choir focuses on the performative characteristics of the photographic medium and its role within the society of (socialist) spectacle. Slide projection is accompanied by the sound of piano playing the popular song from the socialist period celebrating work, the song that was part of the repertoire of (almost) every school performance around Yugoslavia for years....
There is at least one photograph of a choir in almost every album that Tito ever received from the children of Yugoslavia. Accordingly, the album that the Pioneers and Youths of the Institute for the Education of Deaf Children in Zagreb sent to the President on his birthday in 1962 duly contains a photograph of their school choir. The photograph features 14 children singing onstage, with their conductor in front of them and a banner saying ‘Živio Dan mladosti’ (Long live Youth Day) in the background. This photograph is the starting and visual reference point in Two Choirs....
The exhibition is based on new artistic productions examining space, history and the present condition of the Belgrade Cooperative building....
In the form of participatory art project Family Album is researching family narratives of Roma families living in today's Serbia and Montenegro through their private photo-albums and interviews....
In the form of participatory art project Family Album is researching family narratives of Roma families living in today's Serbia and Montenegro through their private photo-albums and interviews....
As a starting point, curators chose the phenomena of the Youth Day celebrations and it’s closing ceremony – Slet. The concept the exhibition explores is the nature of collective memory and the perception of historical heritage....
In April 1987, Kolibri, the famous children’s choir, held a concert in Kolarac concert hall in Belgrade. On that occasion, former members of the choir present in the audience joined the choir on the stage to perform the last two songs together, which was a unique situation in the choir’s history. One of the songs they were singing was My Country is the Most Beautiful of All. Four years after the concert, a war in Yugoslavia broke up. It was the biggest European conflict after the Second World War with more than 130.000 people killed. 24 years after the concert, 20 years after the beginning of the war in Yugoslavia, some of the former Kolibri members reunited to sing the song once again in the same city, but a completely different country than was in 1987....