David Maljkovic

This collage is related to the video 'Images With Their Own Shadow'. The film was shot in the museum of EXAT-51 founding member Vjenceslav Richter and uses audio from a final interview with the artist and architect. EXAT-51 – short for Experimental Ateliers – was a group of Croatian avant garde artists and architects active in Zagreb between 1950 and 1956 whose practice aimed to obtain legitimacy for abstract art and experimental art practices, practices that were totally opposed to the officially sanctioned Socialist Realism. Maljkovic’s film captures the idealism of the period to prompt a consideration of our own postideological times but also to highlight the necessity of coming to terms with history in order to move into the future.