We Build the Country - The Country Builds Us!

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We Build the Country - The Country Builds Us!

2018

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Three-channel video (black and white and color, three-channel sound) commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for the entrance to exhibition "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980".

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