It is common to address objects and events that are dear to us as people, and personify them. In Croatia, in the 1990's we have witnessed the expansion of emotions towards the newly established nation state. The intensity with which such love speech has populated the public discourse suddenly deflated in the 2000's together with the repository of images that embodied it. In the work "Darling, Sorry for Not Writing Earlier" we recall these images while we reveal, in a form a love letter, a multi-layered relationship in which, unlike the idealistic speech of non-consummated love, we introduce confessionary speech, a speech of remorse and uncertainty after the sexual relationship ceases to be exclusively binary. In place of standard, nationalistic rhetoric, which sets the nuclear family as its building block, we attempt to multiply that love, divide it amongst more potential subjects, and make it sexually heterogeneous.
The work "Darling, Sorry for Not Writing Earlier" is made in collaboration with Elvis Krstulovic and presented in a form of a gallery installation that consists of two videos and an audio. One recording displays Medvedgrad* with the capital Zagreb in the background while the other displays a segment of the sea coast. The sound which illuminates the space is a speech in the form of a letter in which the speaker regrets for committed love misdoings, reveals love intrigues that burden "her" relationship with "her".
* a medieval fortress above the city on which in the 1990's the "altar of the state" was placed as it became a location for formal protocol