con la telenovela latinoamericana
Installation and durational performance
in collaboration with María Luisa Sanín Peña
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
February 2020
The project takes the form of a performative installation. Drawing inspiration from Latin American telenovelas broadcasted in the former Yugoslavia, the gallery is unfolded into a social space, a faux tropical paradise, or a cheap and exaggerated re-enactment of an imported melodrama. The space wishes to explore the similarity between processes of nostalgia across these two cultures: the construction of blurred narratives of the past and Otherness: other spaces, other cultures, and the comical generalizations that these mis-constructions may generate.
"Who would think that a genre so criticised by Latin American intellectuals would be the one who would open us the doors to the image market [in former Yugoslavia] and, even more so, who would believe it would be so well liked. The saying goes well: nobody is a prophet in their own land." - Ramon Salgueiro
Photos: Damir Žižić and www.s-e-e-e-n.com
"Who would think that a genre so criticised by Latin American intellectuals would be the one who would open us the doors to the image market [in former Yugoslavia] and, even more so, who would believe it would be so well liked. The saying goes well: nobody is a prophet in their own land." - Ramon Salgueiro
