Diary of Discontinuity ▪︎ Nina Todorović

The Diary of Discontinuity series represents multi-year daily notes in the form of classical and digital collages, video works, and glitch/gif animations - reactions to current events combined with intimate experiences of a variety of external sensations. It is conceived as a daily discipline aimed at creating continuity in the analysis of various social phenomena intertwined with personal perception. The noticeable fragmentation refers to snippets of days, frozen frames that have left the strongest impression within a certain period of time, which are combined with a specific psychogeographic 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. A sense of powerlessness and hopelessness intertwines with plans that have not been realized, thereby individual efforts are nullified or, at best, put on hold.

Architecture predominantly motivates the collages, deconstruction of real spaces, parts of impersonal and sterile interiors, and city map structures, as a commentary on the current tendency to turn urban space into a new, hybrid version of the ideal city, even though distant and in motives quite opposite to the original Renaissance idea. The exhibition is a form of personal struggle and resistance, through which the artist and curator of the project jointly express the awareness of the necessity of critical thinking and active participation in current social changes.