Breda beban biography wife

We are open late on Thursdays. Find out more. I should come clean straight away — I am someone who works closely with Breda Beban, and I became a friend. It is fully in line with her life-long habit of turning collaborators into friends, and friends into collaborators. For My Funeral Song Beban films five people who are close to her, as they are listening to a well-loved song they want played at their funeral.

Although I know the particular story, or perhaps precisely because I do, I find it difficult to look at or listen to. Born in Serbia, Beban was raised in Croatia and Macedonia, where as a child she survived the Skopje earthquake. Starting her career as a painter and performance artist, she began to work with film, video, and photography after meeting her lover and collaborator Hrvoje Horvatic in the mid-eighties.

Exiled in after the outbreak of the war in former Yugoslavia, they travelled from place to place, before eventually settling in London. I cannot fully grasp the effects of exile and death of a loved one, the inevitable pain and anger that follows, and the slow healing process.

Breda Beban (–) was a Yugoslavian film and video artist.

Having worked closely with her, I know that for Beban art and life are inextricably intertwined, and that behind the individual stories and unexpected events highlighted in her art, there always seem to be these larger abstract narratives waiting to be re-evaluated or fall apart in light of the presented facts or fictions.

This is not just the case when making her own art. Beban brings the same drive and the same approach to her curatorial projects. Since she has been the lead curator and creative producer of imagine art after , a multi-stage project connecting migrant artists in the UK with artists living in their country of origin, a project I joined in The second edition is currently taking place.