Slana - Radical Landscape

“Slana – Radical Landscape” encompasses film, photography and interdisciplinary research in the form of the 3D reconstruction of the former concentration camp located in the Slana Bay (Pag, Croatia).

Slana bay (Pag, Croatia) is the venue of the first concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which existed from June to August 1941. Memorials dedicated to its victims have been systematically and violently destroyed until today. Since the Venetian times, the landscape of Slana has undergone brutal human interventions: from extraction and excessive grazing to establishment of the concentration camp and the more recent tourist exploitation.

The central part of the exhibition is the film Uvala (Cove), whose reductionist approach reveals an unbreakable connection between the landscape and the historic context that has been erased from it. Using methods of “landscape filming”, Davor Konjikušić and Nika Petković question the process of (historical) eradication and negation of the location of the crime that took place in the summer of 1941 and left its mark in this rugged landscape.

The project Slana - Radical Landscape encompasses interdisciplinary research conducted in close cooperation with Goran Andlar, assistant professor from the Faculty of Agronomy in Zagreb, with the support of assistant professor Hrvoje Tomić from the Faculty of Geodesy in Zagreb and the architect Juraj Božić. This extensive research of the locality included field research, but also scientific methods of charting, mapping, and analysing the landscape, as well as the historical archives, which served as the basis for the 3D rendering of the camp.

SLANA - RADICAL LANDSCAPE
Authors: Davor Konjikušić, Nika Petković and Goran Andlar
Curator: Ana Dević – WHW
Orthophoto rendering and 3D modeling: Hrvoje Tomić
3D reconstruction: Juraj Božić
Set Up Design: Damir Gamulin
Production: Marija Crnogorac, Aneta Vladimirov (SNV)
Print: Fini Print