Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands by Nevena Aleksovski
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Publisher: PrivatePrint, Skopje, 2022
Editor: Ilija Prokopiev
Format: Softcover
Pages: 88
ISBN: 978-6-084838-10-4
Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands is a visual story built from drawings, family-album photographs, and found images, tracing Nevena Aleksovski’s ongoing work around identity, migration, alienation, and personal geography. Turning toward her own family’s movement across the Balkans, Aleksovski treats the book not as memoir in the conventional sense, but as a quiet document of displacement—where land, memory, and belonging remain unstable, inherited, and emotionally charged. Published by PrivatePrint in Skopje, the book reads like an intimate archive of routes that do not close: a record of ancestry, fracture, and the strange persistence of place.
