The house that is falling apart/ Museum of Macedonia
with Anu Vahtra &  Filip Jovanovski






The kenan, the coro, the hook, the cube, the tuck shops, the cobblestone, the chestnuts, the parks and the benches.

This new body of work explores my ongoing interest in how we archive conflict, as well as how the built envrironment performs ideology and how protest in public space pushes against those constraints.








During a residency in Skopje, North Macedonia, I was confronted by the complex modernist architecture of the 1960s that had recently gone through a process of a neo-baroque retrofitting by the leading nationalist far-right party. The retrofit caused a sustained public protest within the city.

The Museum of Macedonia, where the exhibition took place, was built by the revered modernist architect Mimosa-Tomic however, in recent years the archeology collection had been relocated to a new location and the building left to fall into ruin.

The intervention in the space, arranged with artist Anu Vahtra, questioned ideas of what a contemporary archeology looks like in North Macedonia and what we choose to memorialise. The video work, layered the student protests (2024) in Amsterdam around the ongoing genocide in Palestine with scenes of protest and demolition in Skopje.















Installation for the exhibition The House That Is Falling Apart at the Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje, with Anu Vahtra and Filip Jovanovski. Curated by Ivana Vaseva and produced by the Faculty of things that can’t be learned – FRU.

Thanks to:
Ivana Vaseva
Filip Jovanovski
Anu Vahtra
Ola Hassanian

Supported by:
Faculty of things that can’t be learned, FRU
 
Photography: 
Anu Vahtra