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BED OF FLOWERS

Without fail Biljana Đurđević’s oil paintings cause a variety of sensory reactions. Leaving behind her style of the past fifteen years, her latest show sees her move towards large format paintings staging the framework of the forest.

In thematic terms, Đurđević remains consistent in her study of the human character and its customs, dreams and taboos. Dramatic narrative realism is still present in her treatment of the human figure. The background of her images, with their floral motifs, cannot but emphasise the brutal elements of reality.

Đurđević (b. 1973) obtained her MA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Since 2009 she has taught at the same University and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

artistsBiljana Đurđević
curatorsMladenovic Aleksandra Estela Bjelica
placeBelgrade
tags
cameraVojislav Radovanović
soundVojislav Radovanović
editingVojislav Radovanović
interviewVojislav Radovanović
categoryReports
published16. 4. 2010
languageČesky / English
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BED OF FLOWERS
We would like to outline the conditions for a new sensibility and redefine our needs and future actions, based not only on the logic of endless production and consumption, exhausting fragile ecosystems. Last but not least, through this joint rearrangement of basic and small stones, we try to actively integrate non-growth strategies into our lives.
By imitating the gestures of objects and things that are already in the gallery space; by slowing down, pausing, lingering, alighting, unwinding... through these actions we can escape the entrenched trajectories we found ourselves on in the morning, rid ourselves momentarily of what we have already become, so that we can lose ourselves in thoughts of what we might be.
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