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Mia
Paller

Barricades

Project details

Year
2020
Programme
pzi-master-media-design-lens-based

The subject of my work is the barricades from the ‘’10-day war’’ for Slovenia (1991) which have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. They are remnants of the war I didn’t live and know little about.

Being born in 1995, I have no personal memories so the barricades seem like forgotten monuments. Geometric bodies roughly dropped by the road now form dynamic diagonals and sculptural clusters. I produced a photographic series. Then, in seeking a more personal approach to the subject, I made drawings – graphic representations of barricades’ details and filled a small sketchbook with various compositions. Discussing the photograph as an index led me to make frottages. I then photographed the drawings and constructed a digital collage. The process revealed a different perspective on the object – it is a direct translation from a three-dimensional body to a two-dimensional plane. The action of frottaging resonates with forensic quality of photography. As if the time was sediment compressed in one layer, flattened in a drawing. The process exposes the texture and its ‘flaws’. It echoes my fascination for surfaces and the concepts present throughout my practice: drawing, photography, subjective vs. objective image, trace, index, abstraction.