This project is about documenting all of the World War 2 monuments in former Yugoslavia and presenting them all together in a book. During my research into the monuments I subsequently discovered how brutalism has found its way back into the fashion world and therefore the harshness of the communistic era made the perfect backdrop for my project. My idea is to present something forgotten to the new generation, to explore why so much more was invested into art before and to highlight the freedom in art of that period of time. I collaborated with people from Serbia as well as London and combined fashion with photography, architecture, embroidery, tourism and history. I wanted to present this project to people outside of Ex-Yugoslavia through art and not just history but not involving politics. This was by far the biggest task I have undertaken in my creative life and involved an incredible amount of commitment and research.
Jovana Mladenovic
