For 15 years I lived in a rented apartment in Pešča, a neighbourhood in Zagreb (Croatia). After buying my place I left a building where I moved in as a freshman student, and over time, I built a new community. Since I’ve been working from home for some years, what began as common human interaction to ease isolation became a long-term process of befriending individuals of various lifestyles, religious beliefs and political ideologies. My story of living in the building is an eclectic collage of spontaneous events, interiors and idiosyncratic individuals between which developed an unexpected closeness.
Planinska 7 addresses how life and art are sometimes organically intertwined, creating a much broader social sculpture project. This project was turned into a self-published book that consisted of several segments. Most are photographs and texts of everyday life. I was photographing what was happening in front of me and with me. A special part of the book comprises documentary photographs from PUP7 (Presentations at Planinska 7) events started by my partner and me as informal gatherings with multimedia projections at our apartment. For six years, we invited known and less-known experts in various fields who presented their work in a living room to an intentional and accidental audience. Before I moved away, I set up an exhibition for my neighbours in the stairwell of the building, spanning four floors. The exhibition served as my farewell evening with the neighbours. When I left the building, this long-term project, a life story, came to a natural end.