Ljuba
(2014-2025)
Single channel
projection
(split-screen video
16:9) 19’00’’, DV
Pal
The video “Ljuba” explores two historical events from
1989 through the personal framing of a cameraman from
Belgrade Television. In the summer of 1989, Ljubomir Sekulić
(known as Ljuba) documents the mass rally at Gazimestan in
Kosovo—which both cemented Milošević’s rise to power and
marked the prelude to the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.
Half a year later, Ljuba records the Romanian Revolution and
the fall of long-time dictator Ceaușescu.
Using a split-screen structure, the film also follows Ljuba
as he returns to Bucharest to restage the images that once
travelled worldwide, confronting what has endured and what
has slipped from memory.
The two events, though historically distinct, were both
framed as popular uprisings. Yet the significance of 1989 in
Yugoslavia remains largely overlooked in Western Europe.
Installation view at CZKD, 2025
