Fotograf Zone – Eva Bevec

Yugonostalgia: Personal, Societal, Subversive, Banal, 2021

Eva Bevec addresses the political and cultural phenomenon of Yugonostalgia in her found-footage video essay of the same name. The term refers to the longing present in the countries of the former Yugoslavia: an emotional attachment to the shared past, grief over the war that tore the state apart, and, for some, a desire to reunite.

The video is framed through the artist’s personal position, moving from initial confusion toward gradual recognition and identification. By weaving together archival material, historical references, and her own reflections, Bevec examines both the history and socio-political dimensions of Yugonostalgia. The work poses a central question: does nostalgia carry value beyond sentiment?

In Search of Yugoslavia, 2022

The publication In Search of Yugoslavia is a subjective and inexhaustive catalogue of visual material related to the memory of former Yugoslavia. The project reflects the artist’s attempt to grasp a collective experience she never lived, assembling images gathered at home, online, and in the streets of her hometown, Ljubljana.

Bevec traces how symbols and icons of Yugoslavia persist across generations and political positions – even within her own family, where both liberal parents and conservative Catholic grandparents incorporate the symbols and icons of the former ideology. Expanding this inquiry into the public sphere, she documents traces of the past embedded in urban spaces and on digital platforms. Through a flow of associative reflections, In Search of Yugoslavia constructs a situated understanding of collective memory, framing the artist’s ongoing search for a history that is simultaneously present and absent in her own life.

FALSE FRIENDS
October 4–12, 2025

OPENING
October 6, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

VENUE
Petrohradská Kolektiv, Jedna Dva Tři Gallery
Petrohradská 13, 101 00 Prague–Vršovice

OPENING HOURS
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Eva Bevec

is a designer, visual artist, and photographer based in Ljubljana. She completed her BA in Graphic Design at UL ALUO (2020) and her MA in Information Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands (2023). She has exhibited her work at home and abroad (including Dutch Design Week, Biennale Brumen, MSUM). In her practice, she employs the methods of essay film, documentary photography and archival research to question the seemingly everyday and banal aspects of her surroundings, disclosing deeper social, political and aesthetic issues.

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.