The exhibition “In the Depths of the Province” of the National Museum in Čačak was opened in the Gallery of the National Museum Kraljevo, on Tuesday, May 28th, 2024, starting at 7 p.m. The authors of the exhibition are the curators of the National Museum Čačak, Slobodan Bogojević, conservator, and Aleksandra Gojgić, curator of the Antiquity Collection, with the cooperation of the fine artist Ivan Đurović. The authors of the photographs are Bojan Pajić and Ivan Đurović, while the design of the exhibition was done by Miloš Vuk Aleksić.
“The wind echoes through the empty spaces. We are all here, stopped in the unspoken words…”. With these words, Slobodan Bogojević, one of the authors of the exhibition, addressed the audience, and in his further address took the visitors on a metaphorical journey into the temporal, ephemeral and timeless depths of the past of today’s Čačak, a former settlement of the Roman province. The province as a determinant and as a concept of the past and the present is a global phenomenon, which embodies passivity and peace, but also a space far from the center of events.
Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo, addressed the audience on behalf of the host, and pointed out that this year, within the archaeological exhibition activity, the Museum promotes ancient heritage, so that “In the Depths of the Province” is the second exhibition that focuses on this period. In ancient times, Čačak was located on the border of the two provinces of Moesia Superior Dalmatia, hence the present-day city is located on the urban units of the ancient city, which appears through a series of localities, from today’s center to the outskirts.
The exhibition was opened by Delfina Rajović, museum advisor, director of the National Museum in Čačak. The exhibition “In the Depths of the Province” changes the perspective of ancient and modern and illuminates a new type of museum interpretation and protection of heritage. Bringing together photographic frames, poetic expression, paintings, drawings and direct, original fragments, the exhibition connects the time depths of an ancient settlement in the Roman province and the contemporary space of the city of Čačak, imaginary and real.
“In the Depths of the Province” consists of three thematic units: “A feeling always new, and one that does not change”; “Lost Fragments” and “In Such an Inexorable Time. ”