Ivan Grubanov : United Dead Nations

The United Dead Nations project representing the Serbian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia by artist Ivan Grubanov explores the historical and cultural setting of Venice Biennale as the platform for projection and representation of different visions of modernity. The installation United Dead Nations aims to establish a dialogue on what does the notion of the nation represent in our post-global times by putting in focus the nations that no longer exist as such, but whose ghosts are still conditioning the geo-spheres they had occupied (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia, etc.).