(AGENPARL) – ven 25 agosto 2023 An Exhibition
Olinka Vištica, co-director and producer
of the art project “Museum of Broken
Relationships”, is also a film producer.
After graduating in French and English
language and literature at Faculty of
Humanities and Social Studies, she
entered the cultural scene through dance
and theatre, working as an assistant to
French choreographer Celina Cremona.
In 1999 she joined the team of Motovun
Film Festival, first as festival coordinator
and later managing director (2002-2005).
Olinka has also lectured a course in
“Alternative Financing” as guest lecturer
at Production Department of the Zagreb
Academy of Dramatic Art.
Dražen Grubišic is a visual artist
from Zagreb, Croatia. He has an MA in
painting obtained by the Academy of
Fine Arts in Zagreb, and has co-founded
and co-directs the Museum of Broken
Relationships.
Charlotte Fuentes was born in France
and now lives and works in Croatia, where
she curates the collections of the Museum
of Broken Relationships. Her artistic
practice is based on a daily performance
that removes all the boundaries between
Life and Art. She takes us for a ride,
creating comical situations and telling
stories, in order to be able to finally write
Mauro Puddu was born in Portoscuso,
Sardinia, and now lives and works in
Venice where he runs his European
funded research project, IDENTIS. While
working in the building sites in London,
UK, Mauro found out about the Museum
of Broken Relationships, with which he
fell in love after his first visit in summer
2017. Since then, he has worked to merge
his archaeological research with the
museum’s spectacular concepts and
curators. This exhibition is the last part for now – of a six years long dream.
“I can live without
many things.
But I cannot live
giving up on what
has been.”
From Secondhand Time,
Svjatlana Aljaksandrau
? na Aleksievic
This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 893017
This project is part of the Public Engagement 2023 Activities
supported by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Shards
of the Past
Meanings
of the Present
2023, August 31st – September 30th
Mon-Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm
Sun 3.00pm – 6.00pm
CFZ Cultural Flow Zone – Tesa 1
Zattere al Pontelungo,
Dorsoduro 1392 – Venezia
Free entrance
Shards of the Past Meanings of the Present
is a collaborative exhibition between
IDENTIS (Identity-scapes of Roman
period Sardinia), a EU funded research
project investigating individual and
group identities through archaeology,
and the Museum of Broken
Relationships, in Zagreb, that collects,
preserves and exhibits the material
and non-material heritage of broken
relationships, thereby contributing to a
collective emotional history.
COIN.
April 28th 1976 –September 9th 1999.
Alta, Norway.
My Grandfather. An austere man, but
also so generous. I wish I had let him
teach me even more while he was alive,
he had so much to give. The coin is from
my childhood, and is a symbol of my
Grandfather…
Cranium.
300-330 AD circa.
Masullas, Roman Province of Sardinia.
Cranium. Bones. Bodies. But also
much more. Ancestors. Fragments of
relationships. This cranium is only one
of four from grave43B, while the other
three…
This exhibition brings together archaeological tools,
ancient exhibits from both funerary sites
and settlements of Roman-period Sardinia, and
contemporary exhibits from recently ended social
and emotional relationships, relating distant pasts
and familiar presents.
Through this juxtaposition of objects from different
times and contexts, we want to focus on everyday
objects and their symbolic meanings, reconstructing
the microhistories of women and men overshadowed
by the dominant narratives frequently centred on
masculine elites.
At the heart of this work are the subalterns as a
group of individuals, their relationships, as
well as on their physical bodies, as sites of power,
creative actions, memory, and resistance.
“Can you see me?”
May 2019.
Northeast London, UK.
Barely visible,
directing the digger
in the opening of
archaeological
evaluation trenches
under a highway, stands
the archaeologist while
A very consumed trowel.
August 2023.
London, UK.
A friend. Inseparable from
archaeologists. The trowel is one of
their best companions at work. With
its sharp blades, if used correctly,
it allows it to expose the slightest
differences between archaeological
layers. This trowel, its blades
consumed, has seen a lot of work with
its archaeologist…
The exhibition displays photographs, drawings, and
3D reproductions of mostly overlooked
archaeological artifacts and human remains from
the Roman period, alongside the Museum
of Broken Relationships’ objects, remains of severed
relationships that often “barely seem to
exist, like archaeological remains buried deeply in
the memory of the former protagonists.”
The exhibits help to recover otherwise lost stories
about the choices taken by both ancient
and contemporary individuals to negotiate with the
societal norms and power dynamics that
impact both their collective and intimate
relationships, today as 2000 years ago.
Brick with impressed paw print.
Roman Imperial period.
Masullas, Roman Province of Sardinia.
We must imagine that at some point between 2000
and 1600 years ago, a family had a small farm in today’s
Masullas, westcentral Sardinia, where they produced
their owen construction materials. Let us imagine adults
working the clay, the kids laying it down and a free dog…
A key – bottle opener.
January 23, 1988 – June 30, 1998.
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
You talked to me of love and
presented me with small gifts
every day; this is just one of
them. The key to the heart.
You turned my head; you just did
not want to sleep with me.
I realized just how much you
loved me only after…