Until Death Do Us Part
Katarina Radović
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
Katarina Radović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She studied History of Art at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK in the 1990’s and later acquired the BA Degree in Photography from the Academy of Arts ‘BK’ in Belgrade in 2006.
As a free-lance artist, she has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and festivals in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Malta, Egypt, Japan, Senegal, USA, Israel, etc.
She received the Kultur Kontakt artist-in-residence grant in Vienna, Austria, in 2007; the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) grant for the project Until Death Do Us Part in 2009; and the artist-in-residence grant from the Fondazzjoni Kreattività in Malta in 2019. She also received a grant for attending a specialised course in photography at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, in 2020.