2025

Medium:
Digital prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on Dibond with U-profile strip frames; white floor installation with table, Datura plants in containers, and video monitor

Artworks in the series:
Nocturno (audio-video installation)
You Walked Through the Garden and Emerged Older, 50 × 50 cm
He Opened the Flower and Found Nothing, 100 × 100 cm
Death, 100 × 100 cm
Nocturnal, 50 × 50 cm
Witchcraft, 50 × 50 cm
Ceremony, 50 × 50 cm
Delusion, 50 × 50 cm
Delirium, 50 × 50 cm

Installation view:
Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2025

Work Description:
Nocturno is an installation shaped through a multi-stage experimental process in which chemistry, botany, and alchemy converge. At its core is the Datura — a night-blooming plant of ambivalent nature, both medicinal and poisonous, sacred and fatal. Its alkaloids, extracted and transferred through screen printing onto chromatographic plates, perform their own ritual: separating, evaporating, and revealing fleeting words such as Death, Ceremony, Delirium, Delusion, and Witchcraft.

Each reaction lasts only seconds before disappearing, leaving behind a photographic trace — a visual fossil of transformation and decay. Through this ephemeral process, Nocturno becomes a study of transience and metamorphosis — a chemical poetry in which language dissolves, the plant thinks, and matter records the moment it ceases to exist.

Photo credits:
Ivan Slipčević for Studio Silvio Vujičić
Vanja Babić for the organiser – Art Pavilion in Zagreb