On Monday, May 25, 2026, at 7:30 PM, the opening of the exhibition We hid everything important by behshad tajammol and Karla Crnčević took place at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art in Vodnjan.

As part of the opening program, tajammol and Crnčević presented the work Invisible Gaze, followed at 8 PM by a performative reading of Karla Crnčević’s We hid everything important.

Invisible Gaze examines two distinct archives of Iranian women’s movement and Yugoslavian partisan women, tracing the subtle echoes and shared language that bind them. Composed of textual fragments and details drawn from historical documents, the piece revisits the act of witnessing, questioning how the past is seen, recorded, and reimagined through time.

Karla Crnčević’s performative reading We hid everything important draws on her research into archival materials connected to the Antifascist Women’s Front and beyond. At the center of her focus is collective memory of women’s roles in resistance movements, as well as the question of how to approach histories that are fragmented, silenced, or only partially visible. Through text, image, and the absence of image, Crnčević will present her ongoing work process, directed toward shaping ways of seeing and perceiving specific details of struggle and the different forms of resistance enacted by women in the 1930s and 1940s across the territory of Yugoslavia. The presentation will examine spaces of (in)visibility, transparency, and opacity, drawing on Glissant’s notion of the right of a subject, image, or history not to be fully disclosed, translated, or made legible in order to be recognized. In this sense, the archive appears not only as a site for recovering forgotten knowledge, but also as a space of limits, silences, and relations that need not be fully stabilized. Combining speech, image, and sound, the presentation will offer a partial experiential map of the archive, shaped through the course of a research journey.

behshad tajammol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of sociopolitical structures, language, and lived realities. With a particular focus on the political dimensions of language, voice, and memory, her work is grounded in an ongoing inquiry into the processes of personal and collective memory formation and their role in shaping historical consciousness. tajammol studied sculpture at Teheran Art University and holds a diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen, where she completed the Meisterschüler*innen program in 2023.

Karla Crnčević is a film worker whose practice is situated at the intersection of film, archival research, and spaces of memory. She is one of the founders and curators of Kino Unseen, a platform dedicated to rethinking the circulation of the moving image, cultural policy, and the reactivation of cinema spaces as sites of encounter. Her work moves between documentary and experimental forms, often through collaborative and process-based approaches. At the center of her practice is the exploration of memory as a speculative field: the ways in which personal and collective histories shape images, landscapes, and social relations in the present. Her films and video works have been shown in both local and international contexts.

The exhibition is realized by Kino Katarina in collaboration with Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art and the Kino Apoteka program, supported by the City of Vodnjan and Medea Wines. The Kino Katarina program is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, and Istrian County.

Cover photo: behshad tajammol

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