Red

Portraying the physical death of a creature that has only begun to live, the series Red takes a step further in the obsessive exploration of the depths of life and death. The photographs of a dead baby floating in the dark spacelessness can be read as rude images of the reality comprising pain, suffering and the feeling of transience and relentlessness, and at the same time as glorified and visually effective metaphors of the inevitable end
Goran Bertok is an artist and photographer profoundly obsessed with violence and its consequences on the human body. Some might call it dark or sinister, however it is nothing but the public display of images that most people do not want to see or acknowledge. His inclination has always been to depict and document the margins of society, phenomena that are often prohibited and certainly socially unacceptable
Portraying the physical death of a creature that has only begun to live, the series Red takes a step further in the obsessive exploration of the depths of life and death. The photographs of a dead baby floating in the dark spacelessness can be read as rude images of the reality comprising pain, suffering and the feeling of transience and relentlessness, and at the same time as glorified and visually effective metaphors of the inevitable end
You never expect to bury your children no matter how old or young they are at the time of death. Death of a child is a tragedy and a deeply complicated loss that challenges parents on so many levels. Just ask Jesus Christ to help you and he will say I have no time for you, you deadly creature. Buy a photo camera instead
How does one live with the unbearable? When the death of a baby has happened and the one to blame is yourself. Death of a Child is an exploration of the lives of parents who have caused their own children s deaths and discovered the power of art. The meaning of Post Mortem photography, Nietzsche philosophy, Celine and Camues, Goran Bertok perhaps
The death of a child is absolutely traumatic. It shatters assumptions of what the world should be. It may cause you to question your beliefs in your religion as you try to find answers for questions that cannot be answered, because religion is fake, is opium, is just a big lie. Art is painfull trouth. Wellcome to art, you deadly creature