futures yet to come
Film / VideoExp film│ HD (4:3) │ 7’42″ │ B&W │ stereo │ 2026
Marshal Tito, President of Yugoslavia was a passionate cinephile and amateur filmmaker. Film – like a walking dream – blurred the boundaries between memories of the wartime nightmare and visions of a new future among the peoples. He loved filming friends, animals, and beaches. When in the late 50s Nasser, Nehru, and Tito gathered on Brijuni, Yugoslav island in the north Adriatic See, to discuss the fallout from the blocks’s politics and conception of a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Tito brought his camera.
Through the vertical editing of film fragments from the film archives of the Museum of the Revolution of the Yugoslav Nations and National Minorities and the Josip Broz Tito Memorial Museum, doplgenger de-subjectivises, disseminates and materialises them into a permanent choreography of overlapping and conflicting elements. Grounded in the concept of the decolonising camera, which simultaneously captures and records moments of political liberation and enables an analytical approach to reexamine the visual archive of the struggle to challenge colonial narratives and construct new understandings of history and power, the “futures yet to come” equates the public and private images of the Yugoslav project, proposing a blueprint for the communism of images.
From the announcement of artistic intervention by the duo doplgenger performed as part of the main exhibition of the Museum of Yugoslavia in collaboration with Museums’s curators Simona Ognjanović and Marija Đorgović.
