David Maljkovic
b. 1970
A major artist of the contemporary European scene, David Maljkovic occupies, in his films, photos, collages, drawings, and installations, the frontier between the documentary and science-fiction. Uchronia is present throughout his pioneering work, which shares traits with futuristic novels. At the origin of each of David Maljkovic’s projects there is an architectural space with a powerful story that the artist analyzes, fragments, and deconstructs in order better to reconstruct it: a hospital for communist party member veterans which has become a monument, an exhibition center in Zagreb, the film locations of Orson Welles’s The Trial, which he has rephotographed… so many deserted modernist buildings, evidence of past promises, where memory and imagination end up joined by the artistic gesture.
Films