Heritage from Below | Drežnica: Traces and Memories

Exhibition
Heritage from Below | Drežnica: Traces and Memories

30 August - 10 September 2022

Gallery AMZ
Pavla Hatza 6, Zagreb
free admission

The exhibition 'Heritage from Below | Drežnica: Traces and Memories' is the result of an international heritage project focused on the recent past of Drežnica’s region, which was one of the crucial sites of partisan resistance during the Second World War.

Launched in 2019, the project was grounded on the idea that interdisciplinary collaborations and community-based research opens up the possibility of critical perspectives on phenomena such as social memory and the production of heritage.

The exhibition starts by presenting Drežnica's multi-layered memorial landscapes through the depiction of past and contemporary approaches to mapping heritage. It then proceeds to open up four thematic "trenches", connected to the locales where archaeological research was carried out: 'Radical Care', 'Media of Resistance', 'War at Home' and 'Shelter'. Each exhibition unit is composed of archaeological artifacts, photographs, memoirs and oral sources, as well as the results of the team’s interdisciplinary research. These "trenches" do not offer definitive conclusions but serve as epistemological experiments in an effort to connect the experience of the past with current social issues. We aim at encouraging critical reflections on mainstream heritage practices, and at the same time open horizons to understand heritage as an affective tool to engage with today’s social questions.

Impressum:

Project leader: Sanja Horvatinčić

Curators: Sanja Horvatinčić, Rui Gomes Coelho, Lujo Parežanin

Design: Nikola Križanac

Professional associates: Valerija Gligora, Carlos Otero Vilariño, Sara Simões (arheološka dokumentacija); Ivona Grgurinović, Iva Stojević, Milan Radanović (intervjui i transkripti); Andrea Čeko (kartografski prikazi); Sanela Huzjak, Središnji laboratorij za konzervaciju i restauraciju u Hrvatskom državnom arhivu (konzervacija papira), Marijana Vinković (kemijska analiza), studenti prve godine postdiplomskog studija Konzervacija muzejskih i arheoloških predmeta, Sveučilište Durham (konzervacija predmeta); Matija Kralj, Luka Matić (fotografija i film); Hrvoje Tenšek (digitalizacija zvučnih zapisa).

Institutional partners: Odjel za kulturu Srpskog narodnog vijeća; Odsjek za arheologiju Sveučilišta Durham; Zavičajni muzej Ogulin; UNIARQ – Centar za arheologiju Sveučilišta u Lisabonu; Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu.

Coordinator: Ozren Domiter

Exhibition setup: Ivan Troha, Robert Vazdar

The exhibition is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb.