On Tuesday, 12.05.2026. the exhibition of students of the Department of Film and Video opens as part of the festival Crta za beskraj at KNAP in Zagreb. The common theme of all participants of the festival is: What is your church?
The works are exhibited by students: Petra Crnjac, Roko Kalebić, Vanja Mihajlov, Miroslav Mikelić, Marijeta Perić, Nikola Kežić, Sara Ergović and Duje Vlasteličić
Their exhibition entitled Spirit under Construction / Spirit under Construction gathers student works created in the media of video, performative practices and film.
All works presented at the exhibition were created within the framework of the teaching and research process at the Academy of Arts in Split (UMAS), Department of Film and Video, and reflect a pedagogical approach that encourages experimentation, critical thinking and research into contemporary media and physical practices. The mentors are: full professor Sandra Sterle, senior assistant Glorija Lizde, assistant professor Ivan Perić and senior lecturer Dinko Božanić.
In the contemporary context, marked by technological mediation, fragmentation of identity and the crisis of collective belief systems, spirituality is increasingly displaced from institutional frameworks into individual, precarious and temporary practices. In this context, artists turn to the body as a place of introspection, ritual and transformation, not shying away from the complex relationships between the body and technology; on the contrary, they use them as a starting point for new reflections on identity, the relationship between personal experience and biopolitical and social reality.
Within this hybrid space, personal rituals emerge as a way of articulating internal processes, emotional tensions and social distance. Ritual is no longer tied to a stable belief system, but takes the form of fragmented, often irrational practices, adapted to individual experience and everyday life shaped by screens, algorithms and media images.
The exhibition and works will be documented within the IDIUP project.
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