Living memory traces

Coming from “Illyrianist”, Yugoslavism was the idea which every South Slavs people had to live together in a single country, called Jugoslavija, who exactly means “Land of South Slavs”. Unified twice, in 1918 with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and in 1945 into the Socialist Yugoslavia, both states falled down in a mix of civil and etnic war, where the single national identities fight each other and against the unification’s concept. From italian regions untill albanian’s Kosovo, this history took place in a lot of different countries, each times entered inside the idea of what and where Yugoslavia was.
After wars of the 90s, Yugoslavia doesn’t existing anymore. But the war is still a real presence. Politically problems, international presence, poverty and instability make it possible. Travelling in former Yugoslavia, we can touch this presence and a living memory of a past who doesn’t pass. The memory of war is on people faces, celebrations, monuments, actions, clothes. The identies are everywhere, and reminds immediately to the old states and past wars.
In this photos we walk on this traces, triyng to see them inverting the terms of time, color for the elements which come and reminds at the past (Communist’s resistance, Religions) and the black and white for the present presence (monuments) and current issues.