Heavy water

Heavy Water

Installation in space, glass cube 50x50x50cm, water, 2012.

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Water has a memory. Its weight speaks about space, remains and

people. It’s not hard to recognize years in that water. I’ve collected

the layer of things that are dying, dust from the cracks. These are

the things that nobody wants to accept. I’ve stayed in the building

cleaning it, saved the water and packed it.

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The Belgrade Cooperative building is one of the paradigmatic

places in the city area. The building is situated in the central

location of the Savamala zone, once an elite quarter and today a

neglected part of Belgrade’s city center. It is better known under

the name of Geozavod, an institution that used the building for

a number of years. The building was erected between 1905 and

1907, based on the designs of the architects Andra Stevanović

and Nikola Nestorović. The investor was Luka Ćelović, and it was

built as the Belgrade Cooperative Palace – a joint stock company

engaged in banking and insurance activities. Left to decay, par-

tially vacated, occasionally used for various commercial events,

and with an aura of cultural property of great significance, the

building, as a social and political indicator and a kind of social

and archaeological terrain, is one of the most beautiful, but also

one of the most neglected monumental edifices in Belgrade.

I have cleaned the Belgrade Cooperative building in May 2012.

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The project was carried within the framework of exhibition

“The Most Beautiful Building“, curated by Ana Adamović,

Milica Pekić / KIOSK

Photography:

Aleksandar Ramadanović

Tomislava Sekulić

Slobodan Stošić

Design:

Tomislava Sekulić