"One slide can never be the same," said the art historian Kristina Radovic opening an exhibition of painters at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić Isidore Sarić.
The young artist is also aware of this particularity of slides, who admits that she wanted to make her own slides, but gave up and let the invisible background tell visible stories.
"I didn't come out of the slide for a long time. I insisted all the time that he dominates in all the drawings. The slides have that color and structure and everything that suits me - that it's pale and transparent, and that suits me. My goal was for the observer to be able to leave the space, to be a part of that film and that drawing and to be able to see his authentic observation", said the painter who has had two solo exhibitions so far and participated in numerous collective ones.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje, at the Department of Painting - Drawing, Photography and Multimedia Art, and is currently in her master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, at the Department of Painting - Intermedia Art. She is a member of the "Instart" association and the "Kunst" collection center. The slide painting story began with one of my grandfather's filmoscopes (slide projectors) that he bought in Russia.
“I always carried it with me wherever I went. I thought that it should not be a souvenir that sits on the shelf, but that I should use it in my own way and make a thesis out of it. I started to make something that would remind of all that, to use filmstrips and slides from those filmstrips and to make my own works. On the basis of that one work, I started to build, made a diploma exhibition and another exhibition, and the works just built on each other. This is now a complete exhibition and I am very satisfied with how everything turned out", said Sarić and added that she is not sure if there will be more works with a similar theme.
According to Kristina Radović, the works of various frames, transparent photos with color tones that correspond to reality, contribute to the fact that the compositions take the form of a positive photographic plate - a slide.
"The artist treats photo-films in two ways: as a physically integrated part of the work/object that materially constitutes the image or as part of the concept/subject where she uses old photo-films as previous experiences in order to structure and de/code subjective experiences, thus making them suitable for analysis, integration and further use", said Radović.
According to her, Isidora presents her view of the world through framing, and her slides are variations of one motif with different meanings, because no matter how many times the matrix is repeated, it always has different meanings.
"Like a passionate photographer, she makes a biased selection, singles out a part of a certain field of reality, and the image becomes a clip from her reality and experience. The artist explains this process by the fact that the elements of real life and the reality that is presented are boring to both creators and viewers, so there is a desire to change that reality, both visually and conceptually," said Radović.
The artist presented herself to her fellow citizens with about twenty works that, all together, represent one large artistic work that tells Isidorina's story, but also our story, depending on what we look for and see in her works.
"Through the endless world of artistic possibilities, Isidora Sarić through her slides, through photo-film, literally takes parts of the original quote, intervenes on them, conveys to us a personal remembered experience and thus in an unconventional way realizes a connection between the work and the artist, the work and the observer, and therefore the artist and the observer. In this way, the artist introduces us to her world of knowledge and opens the doors of our world to us", concluded Radović.
The exhibition, organized by the JU Museums and Galleries and the Faculty of Philosophy, with the support of the Municipality of Nikšić, will be open for two weeks.
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