Viktor Popović Croatia, b. 1972

Viktor Popović is an artist living and working in Split, Croatia where he is the head of the Painting Department of the Arts Academy. In his work he often uses found objects and raw industrial materials in installations that probe the relationship between artwork (or object), audience, history of the exhibition space, and the environment or location of the gallery itself. Popović's latest work is the part of artistic research of Modernist heritage of socialist period in former Yugoslavia, the project that was started in 2015 and focuses on the re-contextualization of the 1960s architecture in Split, Croatia. The work is a hybrid between photography and light installation. It consists of the digital prints of archival photographs and constructional elements of installation such as fluorescent light tubes and photo color correction filters that transfer the archival material into the new artistic context. The work questions the position of personal and social memory in relation to the heritage of modernist architecture. Perceiving from present-day post-transitional degradation of many layers of society this work speaks to the lost utopian projects if only to question and remind of the forgotten values.