Museum Of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Tue
03
SintArt 17 - Driant Zeneli: The Valley of Uncanny Lovers
03.12.2024. - 03.03.2025. / Zbirka Richter
The project Driant Zeneli has created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb centres around a wondrous and touching film about uncanny lovers, made in the midst of the lithium mining crisis and fight for environmental and ecological justice in the Western Balkans. The central protagonist of the narrative is a small leaf embodying the fragility and vulnerability of the modern man. Driant Zeneli uses the image of the love-obsessed leaf as a metaphor of complete openness and vulnerability, but also as, paradoxically, a daring hero who uncompromisingly follows his vision regardless of the loss of illusions during his mission.
Thu
19
The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood
19.12.2024. - 23.02.2025. / MSU, 2. kat povremenih izložbi
The exhibition The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood tells about our life, work and belonging to specific landscapes, forests, islands, plateaus and valleys of Balkans and Mediterranean region, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy, which at first sight look like idyllic nature. In fact, they are "living archives" whose "documents" are trees marked for felling, artificial lakes, objects left behind by refugees or the memories of the people who live there, their traditions, knowledge and experiences. We experience nature only through our presence and our activities: nature is wood for cutting, water for hydroelectric power plants, wind for windmills, animals for hunting, plants and fruits for our food, or the routes of our transport routes.
