photographs ,concrete panels
50x70cm
A place is not a person but it can become the protagonist in someone’s life. Hometown, a place that most associate with nostalgia and fond memories, while for me my hometown is just that, a town. Bačka Topola is a very important station in my personal and artistic development, but there is one darkness between me and the feeling of connection with that city. That darkness is what I am trying to enlighten with my work. I go to places that were crucial to my development and photograph them. While illuminating the camera sensor, I expose it to all those stories and in that way, I try to illuminate dark memories of those places. For me, photography alone is not enough to convey the feeling and emotions that these memories carry with them, and that is why they are on concrete slabs. The visual record begins to lose its significance, while the concrete absorbs all the weight and coldness of those emotions. And it is these concrete slabs that are the beginning of my new foundation.