IQMF 2025 EXPO: REPLACE!

8th – 31st of May

IQMF proudly presents to you the photography exhibition REPLACE!

For the exhibition ‘’Replace’’, Dimitrova participates with a photography series that strives to capture the emotions that ascribe the relationship between Ivan and Egor. Having been together for almost a decade, Ivan and Egor have both replaced their home countries (Ivan comes from Ukraine, while Egor from Russia) with Netherlands for the past three years. Carrying the experience and memories of relocating herself and the process of finding one’s ground (again and again), Dimitrova through her images gives way for an artistic depiction of the couple’s story. Synthesizing their experience that speaks of relocation, love, and all that accompanies it, particularly taking into consideration the horrors of the war that lingers around them, Dimitrova’s photographs stand as a monument to Ivan and Egor’s commitment to their joint life path, witnessing not only themselves, but inviting others that share the engage in their story.

Vanja Dimitrova (born in Macedonia) is a filmmaker and an artist with years of practice in the creative realm that entwines and overlaps film, audiovisual art, and photography. She holds a master’s degree from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam where she also attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie at the Audio-Visual Department. Dimitrova’s images extend and gather impressions and ideas that are in the perpetual play at the threshold between reality and fantasy, entering and escaping each ground equally potent. In her effort to narrate universally complex human experiences of belonging, love, loss and fear through her image making, Dimitrova enables the images to ground and evaporate simultaneously. The framed landscape of her imagination and artistry invites the spectator to engage with the potential that arises in capturing the different layers of the human condition and its adjoined subjectivity. Dimitrova has showcased her work internationally, with the most recent and upcoming exhibition taking place this June/July in New York, USA.
Text by Marija Katalinic.

Entrance is free and the exhibition can be visited during LAB111’s opening hours.