My artistic practice centers on storytelling through layered paintings, visual patterns and interactive projects. In my painted work I incorporate elements of family photos, and historical media photographs with decorative patterns to explore how repetition alters meaning. My preferred materials are wallpaper and paint, sometimes overlaid with textiles. As a Bosnian immigrant born in Slovenia during the Bosnian Civil War, my work often revisits the ideas of imagined life before the conflict and the complex aftermath it left behind.
Inspired by creation myths, I see soil as a material that is borrowed and returned, embodying impermanence and renewal. Soil has become a vital and recurring material in my practice representing a point of physical connection, grounding and equalisation. It is through interactive projects that I explore the shared human experience, allowing viewers to shape and transform the narrative where meaning is never static but shaped through interaction between the medium and the audience.
EDUCATION
2023 - Master Visual Arts In Situ, Royal Academy of Fine Antwerp
2020 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Art Academy London
2019 Fine Art Diploma, Art Academy London
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021 The Artist's Manual by Rob Pepper, Dorling Kindersley Limited, p. 156, Ways of making art, Passing By (2019)
2019 Emerging Sculpture Award, Surrey Sculpture Society London
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2023 I WISH TOMORROW, Antwerpen Noord & Nooderlicht Parade 2023, Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerpen In Situ
2023 Folie Manuguerra, Folies - 21st-century architectural follies / Montpellier, France, Client: QUARTUS
2022 Hapovac Adis 5, Jakupović Armin 14, Unknown y, Selimović Elvir 17, Čaušević Edin 16, Unknown y, Unknown y, Ejupović Edis 17 (2022), Client: Stichting Sedra
2019 Mural at B1A4 / Zac Bruneseau, Paris Rive Gauche, France, Client: SICRA Île-de-France
CURATIONS
2024 I’m not a Painter by Lisette Put, In Situ House, Antwerp
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sifting Shapes, Open Air Installations, Damplaine, Antwerp
2022 In Commemoration of the 30th White Ribbon Day, Rotterdam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dreaming Under The Pedestal, Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp with Middelheim Museum Antwerp
2024 Academy Dust & Dirt, Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp
2024 Full House In Situ, Kleine Goddaard 5, Antwerp
2023 Noorderlicht Parade, Antwerpen Noord
2020 Art Academy London Grad Show 20
2019 Grad Show Goes South, Baptist Church, Haywards Heath
2019 Configuration, Newington Library London
2019 Art Academy London Grad Show 19
2018 Beyond Human Forms, Newington Library, London
2018 Deeds Not Words, Femmetopia Festival, London