QUIET DREAMS STAY AWAKE 
 
 

  This project deals, on one hand, with the fine line between private and public face of an individual, who's living in the net of social norms, expectations of others, moral grounds and unspoken rules of everyday life but trying to be true to one's self. How difficult is the way of (not) fulfilling other people's expectations, and even harder - not fulfilling your own?  On the other hand, the project deals also with the thin line between self and others. Because all people have, more or less, similar dilemmas, which in their essence have the same question: be true to yourself or to the expectations of others.

   How other people see us? What do we choose to show? Who are we, inside of our heads? What are the topics of our private thoughts? How wide is the gap between those two faces - one on the inside and one on the outside? Is it possible to ever know somebody completely, even if you share a life with that other person for 64 years? Is it possible to ever completely know yourself? 

   The individual in question, the one who is the subject of my project, is my grandmother, Jagoda Kovačević (1922 - 2003). The material with which I have been working, consists of her photographs, documents, letters, diaries, souvenirs... and the four hours long interview, which I recorded with her in June 2003, just three and a half months before she died.