Andrea Vamos, a French artist with Yugoslav heritage, aims to witness and create a collective memory.
Since 2015, Montenegro has been undergoing an intense transformation of its landscape due to the construction of tourist zones. With the creation of these artificial paradises, the natural beauty is changing, losing parts of the identity and history of the country.
By selecting coastal locations condemned to disappearance, the artist intends to create a landscape family album with both visible and invisible parts. The use of survival blankets as a source of protection symbolizes the need to protect and preserve fragile nature that will soon be destroyed. The golden and silver glimmer of survival blankets point to the importance of safeguarding the treasures and memories of these places.
Further exploring the space between abandonment and protection, the artist employs several techniques: photographs of installations with survival blankets, and the same printed on the full-size survival blanket, as well as diptych photographs printed on both baryta paper and survival blankets. This is a process of protecting nature and protected nature.
This project raises the question of the future of these places and the necessary acknowledgment of the testimony of temporality and the transience of things.
The exhibition will run from July 19 to July 30, 2022.