One Day You Will Miss Me

2017-2022

Winner of the Erste Bank Art Recognition Award, 2018

Publication
One Day You Will Miss Me, Edition Camera Austria, 2021

Collected by The City of Vienna

Research fundings by
Grenzgänger, Robert Bosch Stiftung & Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (DE)
The Province of Styria (AT)
The Federal Cancellery of Austria


Exhibition views
One Day You Will Miss Me, solo exhibition, Podroom Gallery, Belgrade, 2022


One Day You Will Miss Me visually documents and analyses the construction of the luxury district „Belgrade Waterfront“ in the Serbian capital by the Sava River –one of the most significant real estate projects in Europe today.
This district development project has been transforming the Savamala district with the waterfront area and its old harbour, central train station and residential areas, and the entire urban landscape of the capital city since 2015. The project comprises 1.8 km2 of hundreds of apartments in iconic towers, the largest shopping mall in southeastern Europe and the new landmark of Belgrade - a 168-meter high glass tower on the banks of the Sava river The project is being managed by the Serbian government and implemented with the help of Abu Dhabi-based private investor Eagle Hills. 

In a first phase I worked on depicting the urban and social conditions of the city of Belgrade in photo, video and interviews. The documentation is centered in the idea of the perception of a foreigner, using the first towers of the Waterfront as reference points to navigate myself through the city. In the second and third phase of the project I took a step closer to the construction site and its impact on the daily life of Belgrade’s people. From this perspective, I focus on the discrepancies and tensions between the realities of everyday life and the glossy desirable scenarios on the billboards.
As part of the second phase, I reenacted details of the rendered interior design, in form of still-lifes, from these billboards to point to the constructed desires of the new privatized space and in which way a good, and at the end, homogenized happy life has to look like.


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One Day You Will Miss Me (Publication)











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