The exhibition brings together two artistic approaches that, through different media and visual languages, reflect on contemporary urban space and how the city shapes perception, memory, and the experience of everyday life. In Split Dialogue, the city does not appear as a stable backdrop to everyday existence, but rather as a fluid space of experience, a place where gaze, movement, memory, and subjective perception constantly overlap.
Little gallery, Poreč Open University
21 May 2026 at 7:30 PM
Exhibition duration: 21 May – 20 June 2026
Gallery opening hours:
daily from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, except Sundays and public holidays
Free admission
On Thursday, 21 May 2026 at 7:30 PM, the exhibition Split Dialogue, a joint project by young artists Hana Belobrk and Ante Polić, will open at Mala galerija of the Poreč Open University.
The exhibition brings together two artistic approaches that, through different media and visual languages, reflect on contemporary urban space and how the city shapes perception, memory, and the experience of everyday life. In Split Dialogue, the city does not appear as a stable backdrop to everyday existence, but rather as a fluid space of experience, a place where gaze, movement, memory, and subjective perception constantly overlap.
Hana Belobrk develops a painting cycle shaped through the observational position of the contemporary flâneure. This figure experiences the city through walking, lingering gazes, and the recording of seemingly insignificant scenes. Using photography as a starting point, her layered painterly process gradually transforms urban motifs into visual remnants of memory and personal experience. Rather than monumental cityscapes, her work focuses on quiet situations, peripheral spaces, and fleeting moments that shape the collective everyday experience of urban life.
Ante Polić explores the culture of urban living as a space of constant visual and emotional stimulation. His works construct a fragmented visual language that combines elements of performance, club culture, digital manipulation, and post-internet aesthetics. Through intense colour contrasts, double exposures, and layered compositions, Polić creates a visual environment in which body, identity, and movement become fluid categories. The city appears not as a concrete space, but as an accelerated, saturated, and unstable state of perception shaped by the rhythms of contemporary life.
In a time of accelerated visual information and continuous exposure to images, Split Dialogue invites viewers to slow down their gaze - to pause, recognise details, and re-establish a relationship with the spaces we pass through every day.
