Works such as
XY Ungelöst
– Reconstruction of the Crime,
Container, and
Aflenz Memorial, refuse to depict violence
but reveal what makes it and what renders it invisible. These projects unfold through long-term research and collective processes,
and they insist on the inseparability of local contexts from global political and economic systems.
A central point of
the talk is that Milica Tomić work does not culminate in a single object. Each object is a temporary knot within
a broader network of relations, conversations, theory, and collective thinking. This processual logic is inseparable from
long-term collaborations, including
Grupa Spomenik and
Four Faces of Omarska, where art and
theory operate together as methods for investigating genocide, privatization, and postwar society as unresolved, ongoing realities.
The video installation
Portrait of MM shifts the focus toward the intimate without withdrawing from the
political. Relationships between mother and daughter become sites where history, war, and social hierarchies intersect.
Have We Really Loved, We Who… (or Is There Anything in This World You Would Be Ready to Give Your Life For?) frames
love not as the opposite of politics, but as another language for speaking about loss, responsibility, and the impossibility
of closing traumatic historical processes. In this sense, Milica Tomić' practice opens a possibility of imagining
and constructing other worlds beyond representation, beyond victimhood, and outside dominant modes of historical narration.
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