For the last six years, the artistic research of Ana Adamović is dedicated to the examination of childhood experience as a politically and culturally constructed practice that originated and was nourished in a specific social system of the socialist Yugoslavia. ...
Having on mind Western perception of the Balkans and taking author’s own Balkan origin as a point of departure, the project represents a visual research of the region. Photographs were taken by plastic camera that transforms objects and places photographed into dream-like images, thus reflecting the image that has been for centuries constructed in the Western world - the one of exoticization, romanticization and othering. Using this photographing method, author is trying to research into that exotic image constructed around the notion of the Balkans....
