The exhibition in Zagreb by the living and working photographer and artist Dario Petkovi Aluca entitled Damnatio memoriae is devoted to ways of constituting memory through visual means. Through the medium of photography, it shows its own view of the cultural landscape, which has been marked by numerous historical events and is inscribed in the collective memory depending on public and media discourses. The works in this series lucidly follow and comment on the consequences of the social, ideological and economic transition in Croatia and the wider region.
Over the past fifteen years, Darije Petkovi / I have focused on the role of photography as an important cultural category in the process of showing social reality through images of the cultural landscape. Photography is often associated with the experience of time and space, which are witnesses of historical memory. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Croatia has been a society in transition for thirty years, which, like the one after World War II, is marked by the negation of the social values of the previous period and historical revisionism. Such breaks in continuity at all levels of society also castrated many positive achievements and events of earlier times, in the place of which a huge void has remained today. Already in his previous works, such as the occupation u 26 picture (2008), Zagreb's tvornice (2010) or The Ghosts of plausibility (2008-2013), petkovi / / <url> has discovered pathologies of politically motivated historical constructs. In the cycle Damnatio memoriae (2019), he continues to explore ways of relating to the past, using photographs, objects and archival material to build a coherent story about the relativity of historical facts and their dependence on current political discourses. As the focal points of the cycle, the artist chooses six symbolic locations that marked the currents of the previous history; from the famous Cove Slana on the island of Pag to the political School in Kumrovac.
Curator: Anita Zlobisli/.
The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Vladimir Buzanchi Gallery, which operates within the Cultural Center Novi Zagreb, where the exhibition Damnatio memoriae premiered in 2019.
PHOTO: Yuri Vyzhintin
Razstava v Zagrebu živečega in delujočega fotografa in umetnika Darija Petkovića z naslovom Damnatio memoriae se posveča načinom konstitucije spomina z vizualnimi sredstvi. Skozi medij fotografije namreč prikazuje lasten pogled na kulturno krajino, ki so jo zaznamovali številni zgodovinski dogodki in se v kolektivni spomin vpisuje v odvisnosti od javnih in medijskih diskurzov. Dela iz pričujoče serije lucidno spremljajo in komentirajo posledice družbene, ideološke in ekonomske tranzicije na Hrvaškem in v širši regiji.
V preteklih petnajstih letih se je Darije Petković skozi podobe kulturne krajine poglobljeno posvečal vlogi fotografije kot pomembne kulturološke kategorije v procesu prikazovanja družbene stvarnosti. Fotografija je pogosto povezana z izkušnjo časa in prostora, ki sta pričevalca zgodovinskega spomina. Po razpadu Jugoslavije je Hrvaška že trideset let družba v tranziciji, ki jo, prav tako kot tisto po drugi svetovni vojni, zaznamuje negacija družbenih vrednot prejšnjega obdobja in zgodovinski revizionizem. Takšni prelomi v kontinuiteti na vseh ravneh družbe so kastrirala tudi številne pozitivne dosežke in dogodke prejšnjih časov, na mestu katerih je danes ostala velika praznina. Petković je že v svojih prejšnjih delih kot so Okupacija u 26 slika (2008), Zagrebačke tvornice (2010) ali Duhovi prošlosti (2008-2013) odkrival patologije politično motiviranih zgodovinskih konstruktov. V ciklusu Damnatio memoriae (2019) nadaljuje z raziskovanjem načinov nanašanja na preteklost, pri tem pa se poslužuje fotografij, objektov in arhivskega gradiva, da bi zgradil koherentno zgodbo o relativnosti zgodovinskih dejstev in o njihovi odvisnosti od aktualno političnih diskurzov. Kot osrednje točke ciklusa umetnik izbere šest simbolnih lokacij, ki so zaznamovale tokove predpretekle zgodovine; od famozne uvale Slana na otoku Pagu do politične šole v Kumrovcu.
Kustosinja: Anita Zlomislić.
Razstava je nastala v sodelovanju z Galerijo Vladimir Bužančić, ki deluje v sklopu Kulturnog centra Novi Zagreb, kjer je bila razstava Damnatio memoriae leta 2019 tudi premierno predstavljena.
Foto: Jurij Vižintin
