Love and Greetings

Eva Popovic

In the precarious post-Yugoslav wars environment, the genre of popular music Turbo-folk acts as an arena where grassroots reconciliation is happening.

As a shared cultural language, Turbo-folk invokes positive associations of cultural commonalities, overriding politics. This is best observed in the YouTube comments section under music videos.

A number of those positive comments have been compiled in this video work, read by a deepfake of the artist with the background song of a Balkanised remix of Ode To Joy.