Ivan Buvinić: ID_75
exhibition
13th Organ Vida Festival
03/09–18/11/2024
Museum of Contemporary Art
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb
Curators: Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, Lea Vene
Exhibition concept: The Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Fotogalleriet, Fotograf Magazine and Organ Vida
Curatorial associate: Ana Škegro
Curatorial assistant: Ivana Završki
Design: Alma Šavar
Public relations: Inesa Antić
Photographers: 925 Studio, Samir Cerić Kovačević, Luka Pešun
Translation: Tihana Bertek
Hospitality: Tena Kovačić
Press and public relations: Inesa Antić
Main festival partner: Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Festival partners: Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, FUTURES
Supported by: Creative Europe Programme, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Zagreb Tourist Board, Kultura Nova Foundation, Austrian Cultural Forum, French Institute in Croatia, TelepART, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland / Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Acknowledgments: Studio B-nula, Uramljivanje slika Ramasutra, Print studio Anula
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.