The photo series was a social media exhibition. It took place as
a daily photo diary between the end of November 2016 and the end of January 2017.
The micro concept evolved from the critical and rebellious
core of an expression invented by Miomir Grujić - Fleka (1954 - 2003) the
painter, radio-phonic legend, and inter-media artist, the spirit of the Belgrade
scene. He gave his “black heart” to all of us in his "radio nightmare"
Šišmiš on the B92 frequencies during the most morbid times that Belgrade as a cultural nucleus of the dead Republic of Yugoslavia was going through in the mid-90s.
His expression Kenjigrad (expression later evolving in the
urban movie Zombie Town) was there to provoke and dig out sleepy, or better
said sedated and zombified youth, living in the city metaphorically submerged in “crap”, representing a generation that had to put up with unwanted civil war,
political ideologies, and military persecutions.
It seemed to me that 20 years later we are experiencing the
mirror effect of the geo-political tensions that a particular social milieu is
producing, through the same corruption mechanisms, relativization of
nationalism as well as open fascism and media control.
Photo series was not only a tribute to the spirit of the
previous generation, but also was a daily statement of revolt against cultural zombification
and political idiocy.
Pictures are mostly taken from my home or high places where
the city can be observed. They are sensitized with strong colors and contrasts,
which allude to the time vacuum and complexities of changes in everyday life
filtered through repercussions of contemporary “democracy”, which is certainly
in disharmony with an individual time-lapse and are inducing the notion of
aging in the atmosphere of failed transition.
This archive consists of both published and unpublished images.
