Jelena Jureša - MIRA Study for a Portrait

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MIRA, Study for a Portrait

Mira, Study for a Portrait is a work on absence, which uses the form of the portrait to explore the fragility of memory as well as the relationship between the photographic medium and perception. It is a long-term and multi-layered project which comprises a video installation, a set of photographs and a book.

Through the video installation (two videos, 45min each) the viewer is given a new way of reading the photographic and moving image, encrypting place as a palimpsest. Although the first part of the work focuses on historical time with its objective duration, based on well-known historical events, these are refracted through a personal history which is put in the foreground.

MIRA, Study for a Portrait illustrates the intimate exploration of the boundaries of memory. “It is the story of one woman, one family, one country, and three wars” – as the artist explains.’

From: Double Exposure – A Collision of Past and Present by Branka Benčić