|
This collection began with an installation
that honours the memory of my paternal great-aunt Aida Koludrovic who
was Director of the Ethnographic Museum in Split, Croatia. I found letters,
photographs and postcards from Aida including her obituary after my
sister Valentina's passing in 2001. The sister of my father's mother
Ljuba, Aida, who passed away in 1976 bequeathing a vast archive of architectural
images that focus on the 11-12th Centuries presents a legacy that is,
for me, an enigmatic reminder if the Diaspora that envelopes my family's
path after World War 2. Other works refer to my mother Ljuba, father
Serge and son Monty. Aida's de facto brother-in-law Marka Uvodic was
a prominent member of Split's literary community and published short
travel stories for the secondary school syllabus of the time. Her father
Pericles trained in St Petersburg as an engineer and built the museum
she directed and part of the Trans-Siberian rail network completed in
1883.
|
|
|