Young visual artist annual award “DENES”

#12 The project “Western Balkans (newspaper for one invented region)” relates with the invention of Western Balkans – announced at the summit of the European Union in 1998. The newspaper is a publication project that includes a series of photos and handwritten texts focused on the assumptions on the region of the Western Balkans. The newspaper explores various pejorative representations of the Western Balkans region. Additionally the project has aim to embody the prevalent set of representations which are produced about Western Balkans and, what is more important, to show contradictory nature of the inner structure of these depictions. In the final instance these representations do not correspondent with the conditions and identities in the region, but exists as a created projection of an invented region.