Bratstvo / Jedinstvo

The name and motif for the project (Bratstvo / Jedinstvo) come from the "Brotherhood and Unity Highway", built in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to connect, with its 1180 kilometers, the six regions that formed the federation, its name referring to the Yugoslav national motto. From the border with Austria, this highway passes Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Skopje as far as the frontier with Greece in the southeast. It was the first and only modern highway in the country.

Using the highway as a way of approaching the territory through the experience as an author on a road trip, in Bratstvo / Jedinstvo the old Yugoslavia is narrated from the personal encounter with the latent reality of the country found in the current states that used to form Yugoslavia.

This on-site experience is complemented by a parallel work of investigation, thanks to which a diversity of archival materials have been collected that bring-to-present the past and the current Yugoslavia: a country that, although it does not exist politically, is still present in the imaginary collective of the region.

Research > Collect > Narrate

Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, 2016

Official portrait of Josip Broz "Tito". Origin: Skopje (North Macedonia).
Amateur portrait in pyrography of Josip Broz "Tito". Origin: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia).
Coat of Arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Pula (Croatia).
Collection of publications from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Postcards from all over Yugoslavia. Origin: Zagreb (Croatia).

Coat of Arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Pula (Croatia).
Collection of publications from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Postcards from all over Yugoslavia. Origin: Zagreb (Croatia).

Postcards from all over Yugoslavia. Origin: Zagreb (Croatia).

Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia).
Books, Josip Broz Tito "Complete Works" in Latin and Cyrillic letters, Volumes 1-20. Belgrade, Skopje, Ljubljana, 1977-1986. Origin: former library of the Political School "Josip Broz Tito" in Kumrovec (Croatia).

Monument in Tjentište (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 2015

Photograph of photograph. Anti-war protests in Sarajevo 1992, a day before the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began. Origin: History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo).

Brotherhood and Unity Highway (today E75 Highway) passing through Belgrade (Serbia). 2015

Pins at the National Museum of Contemporary History, in the middle two dedicated to the Brotherhood and Unity Highway. Origin: National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana (Slovenia). 2015

Vučko. Mascot of the Sarajevo Olympic Winter Games 1984, Olympic Museum in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 2015

Hotel Jugoslavija. Belgrade (Serbia). 2015

Monument in Podgorica (Montenegro). 2015

Vrelo Cave, Matka Canyon (North Macedonia). 2015

Back-cover of the book "Oružane snage SFRJ". Belgrade (Serbia), 1978

Opening of monument dedicated to six inhabitants of Volčja Draga (Slovenia) shot by the Germans in Svečeričev Hrib the September 19, 1943 as revenge for partisan acts. Flags: League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Socialist Republic of Slovenia. September 19, 1981

Rožná Dolina (Slovenia), a few meters far from the border with the Italian town of Gorizia, on 28 June 1991 Slovenian special forces destroyed three T-55 tanks of the Yugoslav National Army

Opening of the section Grdelica - Skopje, Brotherhood and Unity Highway. 1961

Monument in Kozara (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 2015

Digitized and enlarged photography. Origin: School Policy "Josip Broz Tito" in Kumrovec (Croatia).
Portrait of pioneer. Origin: Skopje (North Macedonia).

Digitized and enlarged photography. Origin: School Policy "Josip Broz Tito" in Kumrovec (Croatia).

Portrait of pioneer. Origin: Skopje (North Macedonia).
Poster ofpioneer, scanned and enlarged polaroid. origin: Zagreb (Croatia).

1st monitor, "Highway Brotherhood and Fraternity". 10h 18min 38sec. Digital Video, 2015.
2nd monitor, "Tito - Riječ I Djelo" (Tito - Word and Action). 8mm digitized, 1971. 16min 04sec. Origin: Skopje (North Macedonia)
3rd monitor: 1: Relay of Youth in Novi Sad (Vojvodina), 1980. 2min 07sec / 2: Celebration of Youth Day at the JNA Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia). May 25, 1985. 13min 51sec / 3: Promise Ceremony, last generation of pioneers, 1989. 9min 26sec / 4: Delivery to Tito of theYouth Relay at the JNA Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia). May 25, 1977. 4min 43sec / 5: Celebration and delivery of the Relay of Youth at the JNA Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia). May 25, 1979. 16min 40sec / 6: Last Youth Day celebration at JNA Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia). May 25, 1987. 24min 50sec / 7: Promise Ceremony, last generation of pioneers, Bele Vode (Serbia), 1989. 8min 23sec / 8: Promise Ceremony, last generation of pioneers, 1989. 35min 55sec

Flags of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia).

Official portrait of Josip Broz "Tito". Origin: Skopje (North Macedonia).
Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Origin: Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia).
Zastava M70 B1. Origin: Kragujevac (Serbia).

Zastava M70 B1. Origin: Kragujevac (Serbia).

Flags of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Origin: Belgrade (Serbia).
Exploited HE mortar ammunition M62P8. Origin: Dubrovnik (Croatia).
Zastava M70 B1. Origin: Kragujevac (Serbia).

Exploded HE mortar ammunition M62P8. Origin: Dubrovnik (Croatia).

Flags of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Origin: Belgrade (Serbia).

Sala Torrene, Getxo, Spain, 2017