Deserted Utopia

The art project “Deserted Utopia” is based on examples of architecture from the process of emancipation in modern socialist society.  Today, these projects represent an “uncertain past” that post-socialist society is trying to come to terms with. The project, which looks at spatial features, emerged from the collective environment of the “socialist city.” The buildings have a physically articulated structure, brutal toward their context, both monumental and introverted: they are genuine experiments that reflect the emergence of a new social order, they have had a powerful psychological impact on the image of their own environment, and are therefore now often perceived as monuments of dystopia.

artistsVesna Jovanovic, Tanja Deman
placeArt gallery VN
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castVesna Jovanovic, Tanja Deman
cameraSenjanović Vedran
editingSenjanović Vedran
interviewSandić Srđan
published31. 3. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Deserted Utopia
By imitating the gestures of objects and things that are already in the gallery space; by slowing down, pausing, lingering, alighting, unwinding... through these actions we can escape the entrenched trajectories we found ourselves on in the morning, rid ourselves momentarily of what we have already become, so that we can lose ourselves in thoughts of what we might be.