Anna Dasovic
Doctoral Student
The Film, Photography and Literary Composition UnitAbout Anna Dasovic
Anna Dasović’s artistic practice is focused on the rhetorical structures that make genocidal violence visible, as well as those deployed to deny genocide. Central to her work is the figure of the bystander and the ways in which the ’unimaginable’ and the ’unrepresentable’ are evoked to attenuate the responsibility for witnessing violence.
What are representations of violence intended to communicate despite their original intentions? What ideological narratives do such representations participate in on a structural level? The production and use of (visual) documents are examined in their quest for truth finding or the social and/or political perceptions they seek to form, while simultaneously exposing their legislative and archival inability to cope with trauma caused by violence. Here, the archive serves both as a physical place for these documents and a metaphor of collective humiliation and remorse.
Dasović studied photography, and although her installations and videos retain an element of formal precision, she now works in a broadly interdisciplinary manner. Her methodology involves archival research, fieldwork, interviews, and bibliographic research in the relevant bodies of literature. She works without any fixed medium, rather most of her works finally materialize out of a long term engagement with existing materials that emerge as a constellation video montages, photography, installations, sound or text-based works and lectures.
Her work has been exhibited in several venues including mesto žensk in Ljubljana, Stedelijk Museum and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Framer Framed in Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Savvy Contemporary, Bergen Assembly, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Kunstverein Braunschweig and MAMA in Algiers. She has previously been artist in residence at Kunstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, MAMA Algiers, Celeia centre for contemporary art Celje Slovenia, Casa Tres Patios in Medellín and Residencia en La Tierra in Montenegro Colombia.