2024/2025
Ivan Buvinić
ID_75
Marina Viculin Award 2024/2025 was awarded to Ivan Buvnić for the project ID_75, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb during the 13th Organ Vida Festival.
Jury: Bojan Mrđenović (photographer and Marina Viculin Award winner, 2017), Tihana Bertek (art critic), Simona Vidmar (curator, UGM, Maribor), Barbara Gregov (curator, Organ Vida).
In ID_75, Ivan Buvinić speculatively situates intimate memories within the city where he grew up. The works were created over the past year, during which the artist consciously confronted what is familiar, repressed, or alienated. He intuitively captures the space, guided by visual associations that prompt self-reflection. Rather than opting for a documentary approach, he uses the chosen locations as triggers for detecting the traces of memory. The objects in the photographs become markers of a personal micro-history and serve as motifs that symbolize events from fragmented memories.
ID_75 is the result of the process of mental reconstruction in which emotional visual reactions to familiar spaces are manifested. The artist engages in a deeply personal “excavation”, piecing together a collage of scraps, fragments, and traces. The work affirms uneasy memories, which then flow into urban nightly contemplation, subtly revealing personal and spatial transgressions.
The work is not a coherent whole, but is open to multiple interpretations, inviting viewers to explore possible meanings and recognize their own emotional reactions. We become aware of the location of a past event, yet it retains a broken relationship with time, while the alienated objects in the photographs are haunted by a vague past.
The exhibition’s layout suggests several levels of interpretation. The side walls open up the view of the objects and spaces as flashes of personal memory, while the two central pieces are positioned outside the space of memory. The side walls summarize an archive of fragmented memories; an abstract hanging map materializes the cognitive space of research; and a disintegrated self-portrait captures the artist’s transformative experience of being immersed into the past.
Ivan Buvinić
(1994, Šibenik, Croatia) completed his undergraduate studies in Cinematography in 2020 and graduated in Photography from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 2022. In 2022, he became a member of the. European photographic platform Futures Photography. In 2023, he received the Marina Viculin Award for outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary photography in Croatia, presented by the photographic organization Organ Vida. In 2019, he won the Biennial of Croatian Young Photography in Zadar. He has had several solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He currently lives and works in Zagreb.