For the installation ‘Disaster Diary’ (2019), Prlja reuses and adapts her earlier work ‘Bad News Project’ (2004), a project which conceptually re-examines the content of the information that newspapers offer to the public on a daily basis. The exhibited
ewspaper is designed by the artist, as an interpretation of information published on one given day within а single newspaper.

With the new project, ‘Disaster Diary’, Prlja paints over the newspaper pages of her ‘Bad News Project’ with the dates and cities/regions where natural catastrophes
have occurred since 2004. The increased number and frequencies of those disasters inspired the artist to follow and record the dates of those disastrous events, similarly to the way in which she recorded the sheer amount of commercials in the newspaper in 2004.

This is another of the projects where the artist recycles her own artwork, in the attempt to avoid or limit the use of further, new materials in the process of creating new works of art.