Preparati is a series of analogue photographs of the barricades from the ‘10-day war’ for Slovenia (1991). These concrete pyramids were dropped by the road in artist’s hometown Bač and have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. They seem like forgotten monuments. Artist has approached them by combining drawing, frottage and analogue photographic techniques as means of close examination with a forensic quality. The process of enlarging the photographic negative is analogous to that of inspecting a specimen, a microscope slide. Images expose the texture and its ‘flaws’ and echo Mia Paller’s fascination for surfaces and the concepts of trace, index and abstraction.

Mia Paller [SI] is a Rotterdam-based artist. In her practice, she is interested in the crossover of drawing, printmaking, and analogue photography in relation to the concepts of indexicality, trace and gesture. She mainly works in the media of painting, moving image, and photography. Her work has been shown at several exhibitions and film festivals in Slovenia, the Netherlands, UK, and Croatia.