SUNNY SIDE

2018

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 of ‘60s sci-fi movies. The pool was converted into a spaceship, and the Yugoslav advertising slogan “Come and See the Truth” – used to invite foreign citizens to experience the “sunny side of socialism” – became the slogan for the space-faring mission named Sunny Side. Oja Kodar contributed to this project with her poetic letter and the information that Welles, in his unfinished film Don Quixote, had planned to turn Primošten’s dome into a spaceship that would take Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to the Moon.

Associates:
Goran Radošević, Zoran Stojićević, Oja Kodar