Heavy Water
Installation in space, glass cube 50x50x50cm, water, 2012. www.issuu.com/onajdrugi/docs/teska_voda
Water has a memory. Its weight speaks about space, remains and people. It’s not hard to recognize years in that water. I’ve collected the layer of things that are dying, dust from the cracks. These are the things that nobody wants to accept. I’ve stayed in the building cleaning it, saved the water and packed it. The Belgrade Cooperative building is one of the paradigmatic places in the city area. The building is situated in the central location of the Savamala zone, once an elite quarter and today a neglected part of Belgrade’s city center. It is better known under the name of Geozavod, an institution that used the building for a number of years. The building was erected between 1905 and 1907, based on the designs of the architects Andra Stevanović and Nikola Nestorović. The investor was Luka Ćelović, and it was built as the Belgrade Cooperative Palace – a joint stock company engaged in banking and insurance activities. Left to decay, partially vacated, occasionally used for various commercial events, and with an aura of cultural property of great significance, the building, as a social and political indicator and a kind of social and archaeological terrain, is one of the most beautiful, but also one of the most neglected monumental edifices in Belgrade.
I have cleaned the Belgrade Cooperative building in May 2012. The project was carried within the framework of exhibition “The Most Beautiful Building“, curated by Ana Adamović, Milica Pekić / KIOSK Photography: Aleksandar Ramadanović Tomislava Sekulić Slobodan Stošić
Design: Tomislava Sekulić