Jumping until I drop around the Fountain of Life was my first effortful physical activity after a complex surgical procedure and then recuperation. I quote a scene from the Pasolini film in which Ninetto Davoli, jumping around, naively asks his father in the film, Toto: “E Papa, perché beati, beati?” In my case the quote…
The rules of the project I invited ten curators, or curatorial collectives, to work with me. They were each to send me to Paris with a commission, a task to be carried out. I was to go to Paris, follow the precisely defined instructions and carry out the assignment. On my return to Zagreb, I…
It’s a sunny, windy September day at Zagreb’s Mirogoj cemetery. On the dark grey marble slab, gradually, letter after letter, the name and surname of my father appear, with the dates of his birth and death. I watch the movements of the engraver, Martin. I take and listen to the short ringing blows of his…
How do I perceive a mentally ill person? What disturbs me when I think about madness? With and without them is a self-portrait, a video document of my dilemmas, doubts, and optimism. In the form of a video diary, each day after coming out of the hospital, in front of the camera in an improvised…
To the Bone is a work that tells of the two-way relationship of two close people. The point of departure for the production of this piece was the fact that after my operation and during convalescence, my mother looked after me. Her total submission to my daily needs drew a reaction and response from me…