Architectural scale model, digital graphics Scale models of illegal construction represent the visually and spatially intrusive contemporary vernacular architecture in Croatia. Constrained by the size of the lots, the scale models expand uncontrollably in height and ultimately invade the other houses’ unoccupied vertical space with terraces and balconies, which are sometimes built in front of…

Performative photography, costume In 1931, at the Beaux-Arts Ball in New York, famous architects dressed up as buildings they had designed, celebrating contemporary and future architecture in the midst of the Great Depression. As a tribute, I made my own version of an architectural costume referencing the amateurish and often illegally built private houses found…

Photography, costume, architectural scale model, video, text The modernist Zora Hotel, complete with a futuristic swimming pool dome, designed by Lovro Perković, was built in Primošten in the 1960s. Considering the 1971 tourist advertisement that features Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in front of the Zora Hotel, its spaceship-like dome was inserted into the world…

Photography, sculpture, pattern, intervention in public space Neo-ornament evokes the stratification of the location of the former cement factory in Split, which began operating in the 1860s. Under the name Gilardi & Bettiza, it also produced concrete decorative products, preserved in many locations in Split. The modernist Marjan Hotel, designed by Lovro Perković, was built…

photography, costume, architecturalscale model, text  The imaginary theater play Betonicus is inspired by the fact that architectural neo-style elements imitate styles of the past. Betonicus is the concrete neo-antique column that is permanently installed in an illegally built tourist apartment. He dreams about being the ancient original column that was erected by the emperor Diocletian…

performative photography, costume, sound recording (interview) In 2010, approximately 140,000 tons of potentially hazardous waste from the former Electrode and Ferroalloy Factory (TEF) in Šibenik was dumped in the village of Biljane Donje. Imagining the black slag heaps as the surface of an unknown planet, this project deals with the impact that this artificial and…