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Valencia-Dubrovnik-Valencia

Valencia-Dubrovnik-Valencia
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    • Valencia-Dubrovnik-Valencia
    • Dubrovnik-Valencija-Dubrovnik
  • 2003
  • 3 b&w photographs, baryt paper, various dimensions
In his performance "Dubrovnik-Valencia-Dubrovnik" Slaven Tolj looks like having recently returned from the battlefield, Tolj is undressed to the waist and peels off 12 layers of clothing. Each layer has black buttons attached, as mementos of perished friends. From the final layer, he tears off one black button and sews it directly to his chest as an ironic medal. He also uses light repeatedly, not only as a metaphor for the pursuit of enlightenment but also, in its paler shades, to convey entropy and melancholy. M.S.