Promotion of the artistic intervention on the Faculty of Philosophy’s facade, University of Split, by academic artist Viktor Popović, called “Untitled” (Archive ST3: Contents) will take place on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 in front of the Faculty’s building at 11 am, respecting all epidemiological measures. The intervention on the facade should remain there until February 1, 2021.

At the same time, second part of the installation will be realized in the Kula Gallery, located inside the Diocletian's Palace from late antiquity, conceptually connecting two, seemingly separate, city units.

With the intervention on the facade of the faculty building, a new exhibition project "Rapper" was launched, designed and moderated by associate professor Dalibor Prančević PhD, from the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy. With this cooperation, the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split, proves its role as a cultural incubator by encouraging, within given epidemiological parameters, any initiative reflecting on culture, heritage and all types of art.

Viktor Popović problematizes urban-planning and architectural heritage from the late 1960s and during the 1970s by writing textual fragments on the Faculty of Philosophy in Split’s façade, designed by architect D. Colnago at the crossroads of two epochs with different socio-political paradigms, as business and commercial building for the firm Brodomerkur. From the archival document “SPLIT 3 - Basic urban solution - Textual part: preliminary technical description and report from November 1969”, Popović selects few sentences that he projects to the recognizable facade, turning it into an active drawing questioning the appearance and temperament of the city today. The inert aesthetics of the architectural exterior thus transforms into a platform of extremely dynamic public discourse.

In the Kula Gallery, with the artistic re-elaboration of Zvonimir Buljević's photographs documenting the construction of Split 3, Viktor Popović points out the importance of protecting carefully designed and defined urban units, alluding to the need for more appropriate valorization of this segment of Split urban planning at all levels. The interventions were created by the synergistic action of several Split institutions. The one on of the Faculty of Philosophy’s facade was organized by that faculty and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists in Split, and the one in the Kula Gallery by the cultural institution of the same name.

Viktor Popović is an artist living and working in Split. In his installations and objects, he often uses found items, archival and raw industrial materials, exploring the relationship between work of art and the audience, as well as historical and physical context of the exhibition space. In recent works, he explores Croatian modernist heritage from the socialist period, and focuses on recontextualizing the 1960s and 1970s architecture. He has exhibited in galleries and museums, as well as in alternative showrooms across Europe and the USA.