INSTALLATION ON DISPLAY @ GALLERIE MITTE, BREMEN (PHOTO BY UL SEO)
ON VIEW @ GALLERIE MITTE, BREMEN (PHOTO BY UL SEO)
On display are four compilations that deal with questions of national identity and belonging from a diasporic perspective.
When I was born in 1991 in a reunified Germany, my father's homeland was already in a process of disintegration:
After independence referenda in the republics of Slovenia and Croatia, a series of bloody civil wars ignited in Yugoslavia, which eventually led to the collapse of the hitherto multi-ethnic and socialist republic.
Meanwhile in Germany, rising nationalism costs lives as well: Racist marches and arson attacks on asylum homes are taking place in the newly reunified Federal Republic.
Using news footage and private recordings of family visits to Croatia and life in Germany, as well as material I recorded during my own travels to the newly found republics of former Yugoslavia, a complex and personal picture of a historical moment and its traces in the present emerges.