Diary of Discontinuity ▪︎ Nina Todorović

The Diary of Discontinuity series presents multi-year daily notes in the form of classic and digital collages, video works, and glitch/gif animations - reactions to current events combined with intimate experiences of various external sensations. It is conceived as a daily discipline aimed at creating continuity in the analysis of different social phenomena interwoven with personal perception. The striking fragmentariness refers to snippets of days, frozen frames that have left the strongest impression in a certain period of time, combined with a specific psychogeographical reflection on those moments.

Discontinuity, suspended or nullified time should mark the position of the individual in the current dimension of time-space and a very complex social and political moment. The sense of powerlessness and despair intertwines with plans that have not been realized, thus individual efforts are nullified or, at best, put on hold.

The collages predominantly feature architecture, deconstruction of real spaces, parts of impersonal and sterile interiors, and structures of urban maps, as a commentary on the current tendency to convert urban space into a new, hybrid version of the ideal city, albeit distant and in motifs completely opposite to the original Renaissance idea.
The exhibition is a form of personal struggle and an act of resistance, through which the artist and curator of the project jointly express awareness of the necessity of critical thinking and active involvement in current social changes.