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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.
Bojan Fajfrić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and has resided in the Netherlands since 1995. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and was a resident of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His work presents a specific perspective on history, combining personal memories, collective historical consciousness, and the inevitable course of events. He primarily works with moving images and photography.
He has recently exhibited projects at venues such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), the San Telmo Museum (San Sebastian), De Appel (Amsterdam), the Belgrade October Salon, and NGBK in Berlin, among others. His films have been screened internationally at film festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the Viennale, DOK Leipzig, the Tempo Documentary Festival (Stockholm), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, and the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, to name a few.
Digital publication
Bojan Fajfrić
Eagles, Army Headquarters, and Football Films
This digital publication documents Dazibao’s 2023 Instagram residency. From June 15 to August 15, artist Bojan Fajfrić took over our account to develop his project Eagles, Army Headquarters, and Football Films.
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Dazibao thanks the artist for his generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.