{"id":5797,"date":"2026-09-01T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:21:09","slug":"mara-bratos-hidden-places-of-the-city-in-karas-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2026\/09\/mara-bratos-hidden-places-of-the-city-in-karas-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Brato\u0161 – HIDDEN PLACES OF THE CITY in Karas Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARA BRATO\u0160<\/strong>
\nHIDDEN PLACES OF THE CITY<\/strong>
\n9.-29.9.2026.<\/strong>
\nKARAS GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 9th of September Mara Brato\u0161<\/strong> opens her solo exhibition entitled Hidden Places of the City at 7 pm in Karas Gallery<\/strong> (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).<\/p>\n

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In her forward, Anite Ruso Bre\u010di\u0107<\/strong> emphasizes:
\n\u201cA dialogue about time, memory and space unfolds between the two series of photographs. What was a photograph of an abandoned city in 1995 is now a photograph of a city whose parts are hidden in a different way. Once they were marked by emptiness; today, by inaccessibility. Mara Brato\u0161\u2019s photographs record not only changes in architecture or the landscape, but also changes in our relationship to public space and to our own memory.
\nThis exhibition is therefore not only an encounter between two photographic series created thirty years apart; it is also an encounter with two Dubrovniks \u2013 one recovering, the other continually reshaping itself \u2013 and with a single artistic gaze that, in both periods, finds the same, almost cinematic, fissures in everyday life. Mara neither offers a nostalgic vision of a lost Dubrovnik nor attempts to compare what was better and what was worse. She observes how the City changes its face and how, with those changes, our experience of space changes too. Photography thus becomes a medium of memory and a witness to something difficult to record in any other way \u2013 the moment when spaces we remember as shared gradually enter a regime of controlled access, when the boundary between public and private is not always visible at first glance but is nevertheless keenly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

PREFACE<\/a><\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong>:
\nMara Brato\u0161 was born in Dubrovnik. She completed primary school in her hometown and graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in Philadelphia in 1992. That same year, she enrolled in the Department of Cinematography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, graduating in 1998. Brato\u0161 is an award-winning photographer (Croatian Photography Award, 1995; AICA Award, 1999) and a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH), the Croatian Freelance Artists\u2019 Association (HZSU), the Filmmakers Association of Croatia (HDFD) and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists Dubrovnik (HDLU Dubrovnik). She has exhibited continuously since 1995 in solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will be open during the period from 9. to 29.9.2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working hours of Karas Gallery<\/strong>
\nWednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm \u2013 8pm
\nTuesday, Saturday 10am \u2013 1pm
\nOn Sundays and Mondays closed.
\n___
\nOrganizer: HDLU
\nWith the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, City of Dubrovnik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARA BRATO\u0160
HIDDEN PLACES OF THE CITY
9.-29.9.2026.
KARAS GALLERY<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 9th of September Mara Brato\u0161 opens her solo exhibition entitled Hidden Places of the City at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In her forward, Anite Ruso Bre\u010di\u0107 emphasizes:
\u201cA dialogue about […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,1102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}