Balkan Souvenirs, 2003-2008
color photographs
The work Balkan Souvenirs is a visual research of the Balkans as a territory that can’t be easily defined, a place where “others” live. It is taking a Western perception of the Balkans as a point of departure – a perception of Balkans as an interstice between East and West, a space where times run parallel, a place of genuine otherness. At the same time, from very personal point of view, it is dealing with the fact that Balkan is a place with which people living there are often scared to be identified while trying to understand reasons for such a fear.
Ana Adamović (Belgrade, 1974)
Graduated at the department for the World Literature at the Belgrade University and studied photography at the Art Institute of Boston.
Selected solo exhibitions: Balkan Souvenirs, Artget gallery, Belgrade Cultural Center (2007)// Madelen, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade (2007)// Without Borders, Galerie ArtPoint, Vienna (2005)// Metro, gallery Dom Omladine, Belgrade (2004)
Selected group exhibitions: Artist-Citizen, 49th October Salon, Belgrade (2008)// Young Serbian Artists, Muzeul de arta, Timisoara (2008)// Art, Life and Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade (2006)// I Can’t Remember my Own Dreams, KunstPavillion, Innsbruck (2005)// The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vršac (2004)