Delja Nemanja

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Memory
photographs recorded
on memory cards,
4 memory cards,
silicon, glass,
4 x 15cm x 15cm,
2007

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Memory
detail,
2007

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Šok gallery,
Novi sad,
Serbia,
263cm x 103cm,
2007

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Memory

Inside a few square meters of the Šok Gallery, I exhibited the four photographs I took. This work could be seen only individually.

I recorded the photographs of my mother, father, brother, and sister on memory cards. Then, I put the memory cards in the layer of silicon so they could not be read, but could still be visible. The description below simply stated:
Mother, photograph recorded on a memory card
Father, photograph recorded on a memory card
Brother, photograph recorded on a memory card
Sister, photograph recorded on a memory card

Although I exhibited the photos I had taken, I did not want to give away the visual part. I left it to the viewers to visualize them themselves. The work triggered the first visual association in a viewer’s mind, unconscious and personal. It questions the nature of the terms mother, father, brother and sister and of the family roles they represent.

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