A Theater of Small Gestures
photographs, video, text, shoe laths

Using photographs, video, text and shoe laths in a window display on Belgrade’s busiest pedestrian street, A Theater of Small Gestures explores interior and exterior spaces of Yugoslavia amidst an impending civil war.  On the window pane a quote from Ivo Andrich’s novel, The Bosnian Chronicle was written in Cyrillic: “Even so, none of this could entirely remove or protect them, from the events, which like fire or the plague, overtook alike, the man who ran from them and the man who sat still at home.” Below the quote hundreds and hundreds of shoe laths covered the floors of the four window “display” cases.  Additionally large scale black and white photographs and video monitors intimate interior spaces next to open exterior spaces.

Project/Exhibition dates

American Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990