un petit cauchemar romantique
ø120 cm, acrylic painting and silk screen printing on canvas, metal frame, 2024
details
:
In the spring of 2005, while falling in love, I became fascinated by the sky glimpsed through the branches of trees. I began making sketches, trying to capture the euphoria of that moment.
As the romance faded, the images gradually changed. The branches became tangled, the colours more intense, and what had begun as an almost innocent image slowly turned into something resembling a nightmare.
I returned to these images repeatedly over almost twenty years, trying to hold on to the colour, the light, and the feeling that had first inspired them. But life kept interfering, bringing its own disappointments, personal and political.
During psychoanalysis, I began to recognise these images as a kind of screen, something I had been constructing and reconstructing to protect myself from experiences I couldn't quite confront directly.
In the final work, fragments of Michelangelo's Last Judgment mingle with figures from the Kama Sutra. The romantic sky is still there, somewhere beneath the layers.
Exhibitions
2025 – Screen Memories, group show, Berlin, Germany
2024 – Un petit cauchemar romantique, solo show, Sales Gallery, Belgrade