After the initial presentation in Ljubljana and hosting in Pordenone AFTERMATH. Changing Cultural Landscape project the tour 2013 includes following places: Zagreb, Klovićevi dvori Gallery (4 April – 18 May), Jeruzalem (Bezalel), Pula (Istrian Museum of Contemporary Art), Belgrade (Museum of Yugoslav History) in Cetinje (National Museum of Montenegro). The exhibition brings together the principal protagonists from the field of engaged contemporary photography active in the territory of the former Yugoslavia following its disintegration (1991–2011).
The AFTERMATH. Changing Cultural Landscape international project is the first regional research and curatorial platform established in order to identify and articulate principal tendencies within the field of contemporary photography in relation to its immediate environment. With the participation of partner organisations from throughout the former Yugoslavia, the project represents an extensive investigation of the effect of large-scale social shifts on the image of the physical and mental environment, and thereby, also on the expression of a number of artists who work in the field of fine art photography.
Aftermath represents a metaphor for the consequences of turbulent events and their mark on the physical environment and on social everyday life. Through their creative efforts, the participating artists address various effects of transition processes that unconditionally and brutally changed the life of the individual, be it the bloody wars in the 1990s and their indirect and direct consequences, radical economic changes that had a significant impact on the general climate, or directly related new social values.
AFTERMATH is collaborative project of seven partner organisations from former Yugoslav states and European Cultural Foundation (BIFC).
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