Remembering The Nowhere // ARTIST TALK By Vladimir Tomić

On Saturday January 16th at 2 PM, Vladimir Tomić will give an artist talk at Galleri Image.

Vladimir Tomić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2009 he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Copenhagen. 

'Remembering the Nowhere' consists of images taken from family albums and a collection of private objects gathered from the former Yugoslavian diaspora, who came to Denmark during the 90s, mostly as refugees. Both photographs and objects have an emotional and nostalgic value to these people, which is why they have been saving them for many years. During the war many had to flee their homes in a rush and didn't have the time to take anything with them. Those who did manage to bring something with them chose in many cases to save family photo albums before any other material thing. It is a unique collection of images of the life these people left behind and the life abroad, which many of them refer to as “the new life”.

By combining family photographs and objects from before, during and after the war in former Yugoslavia, Vladimir Tomić tries to approach both personal and collective memory of this group of people. This gap, which Tomić has named “the Nowhere”, only exists in the minds of the ones who were exposed to it, as it is placed in the time of the former and the new life. "The Nowhere" exists only in combination between those two, by looking from a distance and trying to remember.

REMEMBERING THE NOWHEREFrom January 15th (OPENING Reception 4 - 6 PM) until March 13, 2016