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Artist

Sara Perović

Nominated in
2025
By
Organ Vida
Lives and Works in
Berlin, Germany
Sara Perovic’s photography begins with the personal, drawing from her own experiences and memories, and expands into broader themes of repetition, abstraction, and identity. Her work explores how personal moments shape perception and emotional expression. In Palmeral (2017), Perovic uses texture, repetition, and the fragility of nature to reveal the unseen complexities of plants. My Father’s Legs (2020) blends personal reflection with artistic exploration, confronting memory and healing through repetitive gestures, navigating emotional expression and abstraction. TWO (2024) explores human relationships, visualizing emotional connections with metaphorical imagery and a poetic “hugs ballad.” In Home Mirror I, Perovic catalogs her belongings to explore identity as both a collection of material and memory. Her book My Father’s Legs was shortlisted for the Les Rencontres d’Arles Prix du Livre d’Auteur and the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award. Perovic also founded aTree, a fanzine promoting young photographers, available at MoMA Library in New York. She works as a photographer and architect in Berlin.
Projects
2022

TWO

What are relationships made of? Are they meant to last? Does „forever“ exist, or is it a childhood dream of love, bound by family? Is mathematics fixed, or is it relative? Does 1+1 always equal 2, or can it be 1+1=1, as Tarkovsky suggests in Nostalghia? In one of my most transformative relationships, the one that gave me my daughter, I like to think 1+1=3 — not just a sum, but a fusion. After that relationship ended, I questioned everything and started anew. I learned that „forever“ isn’t static, but fluid — like a dance, sometimes solo, sometimes with a partner, sometimes with many, always shifting. With TWO, I explore relationships through my photographic archive — a playful meditation on the meaning of „two.“ My equation for „two“ has never quite returned to a simple sum. It represents balance, union and separateness, complementary forces in a dance of constant embrace — capturing fleeting, private moments that feel universally true.
Sara Perović
was nominated by
Organ Vida
in
2025
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Each year every member of the FUTURES European Photography Platform nominates a set of artists and projects to become part of the FUTURES network.

Five nominated artists navigate personal and collective histories through photography, sculpture, installation and moving image. Across their works, the past become a space of active construction — where childhood, lineage, relationships, and technology collide in a process of re-imagination. In 'Familiar characters' Igor Schiller revisits his childhood memories, both as a host and a visitor, balancing nostalgia with the uncanny. As he reimagines the past, his playful photographic series triggers deeper explorations of identity and belonging. Similarly, Marija Mandić in 'White Bee' excavates lost histories, tracing a matrilineal presence that has been systematically erased. With her project she delves into themes of memory, female identity, and family connections, shaped through lingering intergenerational bonds. The intimate structures of relationships are further questioned in 'TWO', a project by Sara Perović which dismantles conventional notions of love, partnership, and permanence. Through a personal photographic archive, the artist redefines "two" as a shifting, fluid equation. Fluidity and notion of transformation extend into material itself in Sara Rman's body of work titled 'In process'. By intervening in photographic surfaces with fire, light, and decay, the artist exposes the unseen textures of image-making, embracing imperfection and change. Finally, in 'Terminal Tears / The Feminine Urge to…' by Laureta Hajrullahu, identity is not only remembered but actively reconstructed through interaction with technological devices. Screenshots, digital artifacts, and cast objects become tools for dismantling archetypes, questioning how the internet and media shape our perception of selfhood.

Organ Vida's 2025 nominations were curated by:

Organ Vida (curatorial collective)

Barbara Gregov

Lovro Japundžić

Lea Vene

Tena Starčević, curator

Vanja Žunić, curator

Hana Čeferin, curator and publisher