THE HIGHWAY 

Davor Konjikušić

By exploring spatial traces of the former Brotherhood and Unity Highway, today's A3 motorway, I interpret it as the history of labour, ownership, political systems, and socio-economic relations. The highway represents a metaphor for the story about the society, labour and labourer, as well as the space in which one can recognize all political and economic antagonisms of today's society.

Through the intervention in archival materials, censoring the view and deliberate inconsistency in its deletion, I give the actors the power to return the gaze and raise a question about the imposed historical discontinuity and their social position. With authorial photography and interventions in the contemporary landscape, I introduce my view, by constructing questions about the light or dark past. Through wall displays, I deal with the most important points in the history of the highway, creating an open space for new and different readings.

I thank the Celje Museum of Contemporary History and the Archives of Yugoslavia in Belgrade for archival photographs.

(D.K.)

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Davor Konjikusic was born in Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1979. He holds mag. art. degree in photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he has also completed his BA studies in cinematography. His work uses photography as a primary medium in articulating his artistic concept, in which he explores the relationships between public and private, intimate and socio-political. In his artistic practice, Konjikusic has been combining photography with text, archive, found objects, and video. He has been interested in the role of the photographic medium in establishing the relations of power and control. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

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