The Croatian Association of Visual Artists Dubrovnik has opened the exhibition Parallel Realities at the Flora Gallery in Lapad, featuring four artists from Novi Sad: visual artists Maja Erdeljanin, Stevan Kojić, and Dragan Vojvodić, as well as writer Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić.

Starting from diverse poetics and media, the artists explore layered relationships between personal memory, social constructs, and artistic reinterpretation. Their recent work transcends the representation of a single city and functions as a critical imprint of contemporary cultural and social transformations. The exhibition connects the spaces of Dubrovnik and Cavtat with Tartu in Estonia, Famagusta in Cyprus, and Novi Sad, encompassing drawing, text, artist’s books, video, photography, and installation. By documenting current events, the artists highlight the turbulence of the present moment and the need for social reflection.

The artist’s book — as an object, document, and site of experimentation — represents an important line of contemporary practice in Novi Sad, rooted in the artistic innovations of the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition draws on that tradition, but also on the experiences of migration and displacement that shaped personal narratives during the 1990s.

Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić creates Instruction Readings in the Estonian city of Tartu — book-objects made by combining the covers of discarded Russian, Persian, and Estonian editions with blank sheets of recycled paper. By embossing titles with a Gutenberg press, the book acquires a form without an expected narrative, becoming a performative space for experimental modes of reading and writing — positioned in opposition to the algorithmic logic of contemporary content production. At the same time, the artist raises ecological questions through the use of reused materials.

Since 2006, Maja Erdeljanin has been developing a diaristic approach in her cycle Dear Diary, recording fragments of her everyday reality daily. Collages, drawings, and watercolors form an intimate archive that moves from introspection and the documentation of the body to urban micro-narratives and ironic reflections on the media landscape. The artist intertwines the personal and the social, highlighting how private stories resonate within a broader societal context.

Dragan Vojvodić presents autobiographical works — Bronchitis I and II, In Search of Lost Time, and Architectural Noise — rooted in his childhood spent in Sarajevo and in a children’s hospital in Cavtat. Drawings, postcards, and video materials become an archive of personal and collective history marked by trauma, migration, and war experiences, but also by the everyday intimate moments that accompany growing up.

Stevan Kojić continues the series Self-Sustaining System of Absurdity, focusing on survival in post-industrial and post-utopian landscapes. Infrared photographs taken in Famagusta/Varosha reveal the fragility of abandoned urban structures, while footage from Novi Sad tracks the erosion of social mechanisms and the reproduction of political power.