”The Blocks” (2009)

The Blocks are a collection of manipulated images of eponymous housing estates, ostensibly built on dried marshland in Belgrade in the 1950s and 60s. These buildings were to house government offices, but also became – within a highly socialist ideal – home to thousands of Belgrade citizens. The Blocks, as these buildings have come to be known, are a series of large, monolithic structures adhering in their design to the strict functional edicts of architects such as Le Corbusier. In a similar fashion to the monuments of my earlier works, the Blocks have a whiff of Communism about them. But by placing the core form of each building on a plain grey background I transformed each building form the everyday and utilitarian, to a patterned form that has a delicate beauty to it. As with earlier work I re-present a familiar image as something toy-like and unthreatening.

“War Memorial Installation” (2008)

The War Memorial series was an attempt to ‘de-historicise’ war memorials. Some of them are huge and monumental and others are modest small town and village memorials that are only known by their local communities.
They are all situated in Serbia and photographed in-situ. By scaling them down in size, isolating them from their surroundings and placing them on a neutral background they lost their significance, becoming beautiful, almost abstract objects. They are installed in grids and titled by the year they where built.