Archives: Youth —Monodrama without performer

Archives: Youth — Monodrama without performer

Riding the ZET tram number thirteen through Ilica Street, it’s hard not to notice the luxurious and gleaming ZARA store window. Few today remember that this location was once home to Kugli Bookstore, which, after World War II, continued as the Mladost Publishing House. Mladost was indeed a place of cherished memories and a hub where one could find an array of brilliant books. Interestingly, the name Zara means “beautiful and brilliant” in Hebrew. So, how did we go from a haven of books to a retailer of skirts and shorts? The answer lies at the tail end of the last century when cunning business moguls made strategic moves towards privatization, a normalized form of violence that devoured genuine cultural centers. To clear the dust of oblivion, Petar Vranjković, in his monodrama “Archives: Mladost”, co-written with playwright Tea Matanović, pays tribute to a place that was once a sanctuary for “poets, writers, scientists, dissidents — whose words were swords against tyranny and forgetting.”

“shhhhh be quiet for a moment and listen to what the walls are saying”

Gallery

IMPRESSUM

Artist: Petar Vranjković
Text: Buga Kranželić
Photography: Juraj Vuglač
Support: “Kultura nova” Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
Sponsor: Medvedgrad Brewery
Realization of the exhibition is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia.
Collaboration: Co-written with playwright Tea Matanović

Biography

Petar Vranjković (1997.) je transmedijski umjetnik i istraživač koji u umjetničkom radu koristi predmete iz arhiva, fotografiju, grafiku i dizajn. Zainteresiran je u propitivanje arhivskih narativa te formiranje sjećanja i ideja pripovijedanja kroz umjetničke i istraživačke prakse. Ima titulu magistra umjetnosti animacije i novih medija pri Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu.
Sudjelovao je u više grupnih izložbi, a od samostalnih se izdvajaju izložbe „Whānau”, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, 2019.; „Ich vermisse dich/ Das sind alles meine Freuden”, Galerija Spot, Zagreb, 2020.; „2002.”, Galerija Kocka, Split; „Even the dirty things appear beautiful”, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, 2022.; „Što ako crna rupa nije zapravo crna iznutra“, Zbirka Richter, 2023.

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