I'm Going to Live a Hundred Years!
Katarina Radović
This long-term visual/literary study of my grandmother, i.e., ‘Great Mother’, source of life, and, at the same time, end to life, is a story about perseverance in difficult circumstances (she survived two wars – WWII and the 1990s Balkan bloodshed, and changed five countries on one and the same territory: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, SFRY, FRY, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia) and testimony to a strong will to live, perceived through many layers of memory – a story of presence and absence, guilt and forgiveness, abundance and deprivation, toughness and fragility, love and hate.
In this project, the photo material is presented in several forms: old photographs from my grandmother’s archive combined either with some recent photographs I took of her or with objects related to her; documentary shots taken in the last fifteen years of her life; and re-photographed posthumous installations.
Until Death Do Us Part
This body of work is about the phenomenon of the wedding ceremony in early 21st century Europe. During this period, my camera registered about 40 different weddings in about 20 European countries (including one wedding held in both Europe and Africa), resulting in a collective image not only of modern weddings, but also of modern European society at a time of growing cultural diversity and expanding cross-culturalism. The project was fully supported by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).
"Katarina Radović was not there to stoke the fantasy or generate the gloss of propaganda. She was there to record what happened, and how it looked from an outsider’s perspective. Beyond the frame of the staged, posed, perfect pictures photographed for posterity — a whole other reality exists.This is a rich trove of treasures for all of us — a universal cross-cultural wedding album from the early 21st century."
Jim Casper, editor-in-chief of LensCulture
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