The exhibition takes 1991 as its point of departure, the year of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Born around this historical threshold, Jelena Pajić and Katya Yanova come from generations that inherited the legacies of these events rather than the events themselves. Working with photography, video, archives, found objects, and personal and collective narratives, their practices examine how historical events are carried into individual lives and memory. What is remembered and preserved is considered alongside what remains unspoken: gaps, contradictions, tensions, unexpected resonances, and experiences that are often impossible to articulate or transmit directly. “19 I 91” presents the works without attribution. Rather than being separated by authorship, they are brought into a shared space where the dialogue between…
