SECOND NATURE ANDREA PALAŠTI and THE CULTURE OF MEMORY /MARIJA RATKOVIĆ AND DEJAN VASIĆ/
Second Nature is questioning the policies that form the cultural memory of a community through documenting places (landscapes) of burial sites and indexing objects found on places of mass graves, camps and private objects from the period of the World War II in Serbia (Yugoslavia). Researching the incomplete and personal - small histories of people who have disappeared, the series of photographs presents an index of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the memories of the World War II. Second nature is a combination of nature, language, culture, society and economy, through which we can only perceive an environment. Second nature functions as a textual and visual deconstruction of dominant narratives of past and present, and thus makes visible the processes of forming a cultural memory of the World War II.