Ivana’s new cycle of works entitled “Why Don’t You Believe My Lies?” is extending, broadening and upgrading specific semantic registers charted in her work thus far. The artist is interested in boundaries of representational figurative expression: To what an extent can the subject be discerned through such a drawing? It appears that a female figure, present in these compositions, is shown from specific angles, or fragmented, mystically illuminated by imaginary light, impersonalized and laid bare. The protagonist thus visualized points to supra – biographical gradual construction of dream – like narratives. The compositions in front of observers depict liminal space of a world with an appearance of reality, but also its deconstruction – the field of surreal existence.

Author: Jovana Stokić