The wind is a constant in the desert and this was etched in my memory. It slipped underneath my skin, it rumbled and rustled in my ears, it hindered me while I was filming, it creaked under my teeth. The scene with the fabric and the wind on Zagreb’s Sava embankment is a nostalgic memory…
… you stand before them. Their caring faces beneath the light. They understand the shadow of your unrest, they feel your pulse. From the angle to the central point, they serenely hold out their hands to you. Photography, text: Amela Frankl Photo: Nedjeljko Đurić Translation: Mirta Jurilj Ligatura, hybrid space for medicine and art, Sisters of…
Under the cruel rule of the hot desert air the formations of sand dunes are in constant motion and transformation. Only the fragile geometrical lines that vanish in the perspective of the desert landscape intersect the uniformly shimmering expanses. Planned and rational, in the north to south and east to west directions they resist the…
About noon. Thirty eight degrees and climbing. A strong wind from the Atlantic, shifting sands. I come upon a scene. Twelve young men on the shore. They don’t feel the needling of the glass-sharp grains on their skin. With no words or shouted instructions, they know what they have to do. Twelve to a net,…
Saturday morning, August 17, 2019. We are about sixty kilometres north of Nouakchott, eighteen degrees and thirty six minutes north and sixteen degrees six minutes west. In Mauritania, on the west coast of Africa The road in the photo connects Tanit and the Nouakchott-Nouadhibou national highway. Tanit is an uninhabited place all on its own,…
In Praška Street, in the center of Zagreb, step by step, barefoot, I measure out cadastral parcel number 2427. The parking barrier and the deluxe bodywork of the vehicles make a mockery of forgetfulness and the Zagreb people who long ago built a synagogue on this site, loved their city and yet vanished from it.…
Museum of Arts and Crafts ISBN 978-953-7641-92-4 Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover Publisher: Museum of Arts and Crafts Zagreb For the publisher: Miroslav Gašparović Catalogue Editors: Marijana Paula Ferenčić, Amela Frankl Texts authors : Ivana Mance, Amela Frankl Translation: Graham McMaster Proof-reading: Antonia Došen Photographs for catalogue: Fotoatelijer MUO, V. Benović Graphic design: Šesnić&Turković, Barbara…
Publisher: Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb ISBN: 978-953-8027-08-6 72 pages, 19 color images 20 x 13 cm bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover Editors: Amela Frankl and Janka Vukmir Texts: Ružica Šimunović, Marija Selak, Amela Frankl Photographs: Boris Cvjetanović, Miran Krčadinac Design: Igor Kuduz Translation: Graham McMaster The publication follows the exhibition at the Institute for…
Publisher: Meandar Media, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb, Amela Frankl The publishing project, the What I Bear books, is the concluding phase of a series of ten performances, actions or installations put on in the period from 2011 to 2013 in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, entitled What I bear, in which ten Zagreb…
92-2013 Publisher: Institute of Arts History The Magazine Život umjetnosti -THE MARGIN/ALITY OF ART PRACTICES On transformance or about art with no compromises – a conversation with Amela Frankl DOWNLOAD PDF