Tomislav Latinovic’s practice explores the intersection of their queer identity and post-Yugoslav cultural heritage. Through language, movement, and research, they explore the complexities of this experience. It encompasses research into the erasure of queer histories from national archives, and the problematic importance of Western queer representation in media to global queer communities.
Parts of Latinovic’s short film was located within the Brutalist Hall for All, the Home of the Museum of Brutalist Architecture at Acland Burghley School’s Assembly Hall.
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Tomislav is a Serbo-British artist based in London. They completed their Foundation Diploma at The Royal Drawing School and their BA (Hons) at Newcastle University.
I Hear You
(ft Last Year by Nancy Costello), 2023
Exhibited at Newcastle Fine Art Graduate Show as a part of FREERANGE at the Truman Brewery.
Nancy Costello (who features in the majority of the films) wrote the backing song Last Year, the year after we lived together during Covid. We spent a lot of that year sad, but together. It feels fitting to soundtrack a community-building exercise in reclamation with a song that came through recovery.
Other notable works include BORGHESIA – Queer Translation, 2023.
Phonetic translation of BORGHESIA’s Nocne Stenje. Finding ways of comprehending Post-Yugoslav languages and cultures from the outside, and how to place queer identities within cultural histories.
Here, I recreated a Kilim carpet, used threads and yarns my grandma saved during the wars and raw sheep wool to create visuals which call back to Post-Yugoslav cultural identities. They are subverted through the disjointed nature of the video.
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