Bojan Fajfrić
Eagles, Army Headquarters, and Football Films

Instagram residency 2023
From June 15 to August 15, 2023

@dazibaomtl

Since 2014, Bojan Fajfrić has been photographing and documenting three architectural sites within Belgrade's ever-changing urban landscape. These sites – the Army Headquarters, the Belgrade Waterfront, and the Montevideo film set site – reflect how conflict, economic speculation, and historical revisionism have disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of the city but also its social and cultural networks. The artist’s extensive personal archive of over 4000 photos tracks the evolution of these sites to depict a political and physical landscape hibernating between a state of devastation and reconstruction. Accentuating absurdity, negligence, and hopelessness, the images are meticulous compositions that capture paradoxes of old and modern, gravity and humor. Eagles, Army Headquarters, and Football Films aims to illuminate a “trauma in-making” by providing a visual record of the steps and actions, the repercussions of which will be experienced in the future.