Exhibition catalogue, 1997.
ISBN 953-96323-2-3
68 pages, 66 b/w and colour images, 28.7 x 23.5 cm
Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover
Publishers: SCCA Zagreb & ARL, Dubrovnik
Editor: Slaven Tolj
Authors: Valerij Beskid, Sanja Cvetnić, Marina Gržinić, Ivan Kafka, Leonida
Kovač, Antun Maračić, Borivoj Popovčak, Janet Shanks, Slaven Tolj, Evelina
Turković, Janka Vukmir
Artists: Igor Rončević, Duje Jurić, Vesna Pokas, Edita Schubert, Marina
Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Lubo Stacho, Maro Mitrović, Rino Efendić, Božidar
Jurjević, Denis Krašković, Josip Baće, Zlatko Kopljar, , Janet Shanks, Ivan
Kožarić, Ivana Jelavić, Goran Petercol, Ana Opalić, Đorđe Jandrić, Antun
Maračić, Tomo Savić-Gecan, Ivan Kafka, Marin Grill, Boris Cvjetanović

The exhibition Otok / Island was organised by the SCCA – Zagreb
and Art Workshop Lazareti just a year after the war in Croatia was
over, in the heavily attacked during the wartime Dubrovnik, in
public spaces of the city and the nearby island of Lokrum.
After four war years of impossibility to enjoy public spaces the
return of artworks closer to the audiences was an eye-opening
event that provoked a variety of reactions.
The central point of the project was the exhibition of invited
Croatian artists whose work was coming out of visual and social
questioning of margin, isolation and (non)existence.

Artists from the spaces of similar destiny (Slovakia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Lithuania, Czech Republic…) were invited to join along
the third group of the exhibition artists, the young artists from
Dubrovnik.
Artists were invited to respond to the abovementioned questions
and to consider the importance of durability of their works. How
important is to produce the artwork and how much can the idea,
proposal or just a sketch influence the world of art? What is the
meaning of the public space and connotations embedded in it?

The catalogue contains introductory texts by the curator Slaven Tolj
and art historian Janka Vukmir, accompanied with artists
statements and short texts on their works by various authors.