“Against the Neutral Image”: Essays on the exhibition “Choreography of Violence” by Jelena Jureša Now Available for Download

The publication Against the Neutral Image, released on the occasion of the solo exhibition by Jelena Jureša and published by the University of Rijeka, is available for download in PDF format.

The publication Against the Neutral Image was released on the occasion of the solo exhibition Choreography of Violence by Jelena Jureša at MMSU Rijeka.
The book features essays by five authors: Francesca Raimondi, Marija Hlavajova, Shahram Khosravi, Sanja Bojanić, and Branka Benčić, who is also the curator of the exhibition at MMSU.
The publication was designed by Ana Labudović.

The publication Against the Neutral Image is not conceived as a conventional exhibition catalogue. Departing from the film works of Jelena Jureša, it opens up a space of encounter between artistic, curatorial, and theoretical practices, and develops questions about how violence is made visible or invisible, how it is framed, aestheticized, normalized, or suppressed. Through its texts, the book insists on the thesis that the neutrality of the image is never merely a style of representation, but is often a technique of power: an arrangement of distance, attention, and responsibility.

The panel discussion continues the logic of the publication itself as a “space of encounter,” extending its questions through dialogue and exchange, rather than treating the book or the exhibition as a closed entity. The discussion will address the relationship between image and institution, aesthetics and ethics, as well as the role of exhibitionary and discursive frameworks in shaping the ways we look at, understand, and (fail to) respond to violence.

The book can be downloaded at the following link:

Against the Neutral Image – Essays on the Exhibition Choreography of Violence by Jelena Jureša

Project partners:
MMSU Rijeka, Centar za napredne studije Sveučilišta u Rijeci, KASK & Conservatorium / HOGENT Arts Research Fund