Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
In memoriam, Nekrolog, Obituarij
N MEMORIAM: MARINA VICULIN, PhD (1958 – 2015)
Sandra Vitaljić
; Akademija dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
A photograph, said Marina in conversation with Ana Opalić, shows with unerring precision the way you are inside the moment
the shutter is released. For Marina, the photograph was a special medium, a medium for the recording of time, and the recording
of looks.
Marina Viculin produced large and important retrospective exhibitions of photographs, but also, in the Snapshot Series, kept up
with and exhibited recent photographic works or, perhaps, what we shot “just like that, for ourselves”. You could take to Marina
the photographs you didn’t want to show almost anyone else, you could talk with her about the ideas that kept you awake at
night. She would listen, look, understand. She encouraged us, offered support and at the end, gave a voice to those of us who
expressed ourselves in images and were most often awkward when it came to words. She always hit the heart of the matter
with her texts, incorporated herself and her view of the world in them. These texts were always personal, and it seemed that
she really looked deep within you to describe what she saw in your photos. She changed the view of the photograph in general
social perception, deepened and encouraged thinking about it, and about other things as well, about life itself. Here she was
both candid and courageous. She made possible the production of many exhibitions that she could hardly believe in herself. You
could turn to her with any kind of problem, and she would solve them with a grin. There was no insurmountable obstacle for her
when it came to art and exhibitions.
She invested a lot in the work and promotion of young photographers. She often took part in the exam exhibitions of the photography department of the Academy of Dramatic Arts and put on exhibitions of our students. She launched the First Shot series,
a unique platform for the first solo shows of young authors. She worked on the promotion of Croatian photographers abroad and
in general, with her dedicated work, continued to building up the endorsement of photography qua medium.
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