Monuments

“War Memorial Installation” (2008)

The Monument series was an attempt to ‘de-historicise’ war memorials in the former Yugoslavia. Some of them are huge and monumental and others are modest small town and village memorials that are only known by their local communities. 

They are all photographed in-situ but by scaling them down in size, isolating them from their surroundings and placing them on a neutral background they lost their original meaning, becoming beautiful, almost abstract toy-like objects. Only after a closer look can the viewer reveal the context and the scale of the objects. They are titled by the year they where built and installed in grids that contradict their purpose of standing alone and dominating their surroundings.