Independent exhibition of paintings by an academic painter from Budva Jelena Papović will be opened today in Kotor, at 19 pm in the City Gallery.
Papović presents herself with a series of paintings made with a combined technique, and she is an art historian Ana Ivanović she wrote on the occasion that her artistic practice permeates "understanding the fluid flow of life and her position in it"...
"From that she looks for her colors, from that comes the movement of her figures, the stirring of air and the flow of water. It can be said that these two elements, air and water, have primacy in her works. Water inspires exploration of deeper layers of experience, self-reflection, even transformation. We equate air with breathing, with the movement of thought and imagination. Rarely are her bodies attached to the ground, or even clearly defined ground. She carries it inside her, as an attachment to home, rock and stone from the seashore," Ivanović writes.
The playwright also noticed that Maja Pelević who also shared her experience from Jelena Papović's studio.
"Within the walls of the Old Town in Budva is Jelena's living and working space filled with objects, animals and books. All this is depicted on stones, wood and canvases that fill every part of the warm, humid and chaotic room. Warm - because it's her home, humid because the sea is at her doorstep and a bit chaotic because it's where untamed creativity and exciting life intertwine," noted Pelević and invited the audience to immerse themselves in the selected images...
"While you walk among these pictures today and tomorrow - dare to look through them. Dare to look through yourself and through her," says Pelević.
Ivanović adds that in most works we find a mirror, whole or in fragments, with which Papović challenges the observer's own perception.
"Displacing us from the comfortable position of a passive observer, he draws us into the act of understanding collectivity, introspection, empathy, into the possibility of immersion in the image. Looking at our own reflection, we stand in front of 'her world', alone or together with other observers whose reflections can also be seen moving through the exhibition space", the art historian believes.
Jelena Papović was born in Cetinje on January 28, 1975. After her childhood in Budva, she graduated from high school for industrial design in Belgrade, and from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, in the professor's class Nikola Gvozdenović Gvozd In 1997, she attended postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in the class Gradimir Petrović. Since 1998, he has been creating and keeping the doors of his studio open in the Old Town of Budva.
She exhibited at several individual and collective exhibitions, and since 2015 she has been engaged in pedagogical work in Budva and Petrovac.
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