The work Hotel Balkan is a meditative and ambient video that defines the boundary between futuristic memories of the past and present imagining of the future. There are images from the past which can be immediately recognized as being from the past, but we still perceive them as if they were futuristic. The film was shot in Tito’s bunker in Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
It was screened at the 55^th October Salon.

© Cultural Centre of Belgrade, the October Salon Collection and the artist
Gift Contract: III-5-105/6.3.2015.
Inventory No. 076
Photo: still from the video work

The main artistic value of the video work Is There Death After Life? lies in naming and language. The basic philosophical, i.e., ontological issues on which the weight of this work rests are achieved simply by inversion of the words ‘death’ and ‘life’ in the dogmatic question “is there life after death?”, which, for a moment, creates confusion as the basis for the possibility for new questions and conclusions. With the aesthetics of dystopia and landscape cinema in the relationship between the figure and the landscape, the artist emphasizes the idea of isolation, anticipation, impossibility of final knowledge/cognition and captivity within the perception of time limited by man, and attempts at its extension.
For this work, the artist received the Zvono Award in 2018.

© Cultural Centre of Belgrade, the October Salon Collection and the artist
Purchase Contract: III-5-380/31.10.2019.
Inventory No. 1662
Photo: still from the video work