Jordan and Iskra Grabul. Monument to the Ilinden Uprising. 1970–73. Kruševo, Macedonia
... often all these pictures do is undermine the central argument that Yugoslav architecture is relevant to a western audience. Take, for example, the honeycomb domes of Kosovo’s National University and Library. Jeck sells them as Ozymandian relics, beautiful as much for their seeming state of disuse as for their design. But this is a building still in use. Serbians, Albanians and Kosovans continue to read its ethnically diverse motifs in a variety of different ways. Jeck’s emphasis on abandonment seems needlessly fetishistic. Detroit is fed up with ruin porn; Pristina might soon be too.
Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016

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