After premiering at SALT Galata in October 2024, Yane Calovski's work Where Ashes Suffer From Vertigo (2024) is featured in Translated into Socialism, on view at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, from June 12, 2025, to February 8, 2026. Curated by Merve Elveren, with research by Sezgin Boynik and Tevfik Rada (Pykë-Presje), the exhibition presents the little-known history of the Turkish-speaking community in Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo and Macedonia between 1920 and 1980. Tracing the archives that have moved with the community during the exhibition includes cultural initiatives, publications, and educational institutions that challenge dominant nationalist narratives and highlight Yugoslavia’s distinctive model of socialism.

Where Ashes Suffer From Vertigo (2024), an installation commissioned for the exhibition, is rooted in the rediscovery of an unpublished manuscript of selected poems by his father, the writer Todor Chalovski (1945–2015), translated from Macedonian into Turkish by Fahkri Ali (b. 1948). The installation combines over 100 works on paper that directly reference the manuscript, typewritten pages, indigo transfer paper, and archival documents of varying weights and textures. This layering of distressed sheets, fragmented texts, and abstract forms embodies both presence and absence, evoking the ruptures of communication between a poet and a translator and between a father and son. By weaving personal memory with cultural history, the work meditates on unresolved inheritances and the shifting afterlives of stories, proposing a fragile but resonant space where literary and artistic legacies continue to transform.

Image: Yane Calovski, Where Ashes Suffer From Vertigo, 2024/25, installation view 

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