Letterpress
Serigraphy
Ephemeral Installation
Serigraphy
Ephemeral Installation
Transitory (Prolazno)
For Transitory, I invited a group of contemporary artists from Croatia and neighboring regions to describe a work of theirs that no longer exists. Some wrote about installations that had been dismantled, others about performances that lived only in memory.
Their words became fragments—poetic, practical, sometimes matter-of-fact—that I translated, set in wood type, and printed by hand in Chicago.The type I used originally came from Croatia, and I carried the printed fragments back with me to Zagreb, returning them to the place where the project began.
I installed the work in LiberSPACE’s Haustor Gallery, a passageway that once housed a print shop, with a sculpture of Gutenberg still looking out from the façade. The site itself felt like a conduit—between inside and outside, between what remains and what disappears.
Each print was hung on a line and left to move with the air, like laundry or work clothes drying in a shared courtyard. Over time, the pages shifted and curled, and people walking through brushed against them. Their touch and the wind became part of the piece.
I think of Transitory as an act of remembering through print—archiving voices that describe what is already gone. The work holds the gestures of labor, translation, and return. It reflects on how something can vanish but still leave an imprint: of the hands that made it, the people who passed by, and the air that carried it.
Participating artists:
Aleksandar Bede
Sabina Čanić
Katerina Duda
Miljenka Francic
Ana Horvat
Josip Ivančić
Ivana Ognjanovac
Ivana Ožetski
Ivana Penjak Kasavica
Dražen Pejković
Irena Poje-Oxenham
Petar Popijač
Laura Rainbow
Mateja Rusak
Darko Sačić
Maja Vrban Sačić
Saša Šimpraga
Janja Stupar
Ivan Mesek
Jelena Martinović
Lila Herceg
Wanda Tudja Strahonja
Ivona Vlasic
July 2025
For Transitory, I invited a group of contemporary artists from Croatia and neighboring regions to describe a work of theirs that no longer exists. Some wrote about installations that had been dismantled, others about performances that lived only in memory.
Their words became fragments—poetic, practical, sometimes matter-of-fact—that I translated, set in wood type, and printed by hand in Chicago.The type I used originally came from Croatia, and I carried the printed fragments back with me to Zagreb, returning them to the place where the project began.
I installed the work in LiberSPACE’s Haustor Gallery, a passageway that once housed a print shop, with a sculpture of Gutenberg still looking out from the façade. The site itself felt like a conduit—between inside and outside, between what remains and what disappears.
Each print was hung on a line and left to move with the air, like laundry or work clothes drying in a shared courtyard. Over time, the pages shifted and curled, and people walking through brushed against them. Their touch and the wind became part of the piece.
I think of Transitory as an act of remembering through print—archiving voices that describe what is already gone. The work holds the gestures of labor, translation, and return. It reflects on how something can vanish but still leave an imprint: of the hands that made it, the people who passed by, and the air that carried it.
Participating artists:
Aleksandar Bede
Sabina Čanić
Katerina Duda
Miljenka Francic
Ana Horvat
Josip Ivančić
Ivana Ognjanovac
Ivana Ožetski
Ivana Penjak Kasavica
Dražen Pejković
Irena Poje-Oxenham
Petar Popijač
Laura Rainbow
Mateja Rusak
Darko Sačić
Maja Vrban Sačić
Saša Šimpraga
Janja Stupar
Ivan Mesek
Jelena Martinović
Lila Herceg
Wanda Tudja Strahonja
Ivona Vlasic
July 2025