My artistic practice is storytelling through participatory works and visual patterns. My experience-based installations explore spaces where viewers actively shape the narrative. The meaning of the work is never static. It is a continuous interplay between the medium and the audience, initiating social dialogues. I draw inspiration from rituals and mythological teachings, reimagining and adapting them for present times. Soil has become a recurring material in my work—always borrowed and returned. In my work, it acts as a grounding force that initiates physical connection and as a medium of equalisation.
In my painted works, I use wallpaper scrolls as a continuous canvas, layered with decorative patterns composed of transfigured family photos and historical media images. I prefer wallpaper for its intimacy and continuous quality, allowing the pieces to flow and explore how repetition alters meaning. These paintings imagine life before the Bosnian Civil War in the 1990s while reflecting on the war's complex heritage and the present social context.
EDUCATION
2023 Pre-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
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2024 Sifting Shapes, Open Air Installations, Damplaine Antwerp
2023 - I WISH TOMORROW, Antwerpen Noord & 2023 Nooderlicht Parade in Collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp In Situ
2023 Folie Manuguerra, Folies - 21st-Century Architectural Follies / Montpellier, France, Client: QUARTUS
2019 Mali Mural at B1A4 / Zac Bruneseau, Paris Rive Gauche, France, Client: SICRA Île-de-France
CURATIONS
2024 I’m not a Painter by Lisette Put, 356 Dambruggestraat, Antwerp
AWARDS
2020 NetWest Bank Prize
2019 Emerging Sculpture Award, Surrey Sculpture Society London
PUBLICATIONS
2021 The Artist's Manual by Rob Pepper, Dorling Kindersley Limited, Ways of making art
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dreaming Under The Pedestal, Royal Academy of Fine Arts 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, Antwerp 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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Bijele Trake - In Commemoration of the 30th White Ribbon Day, Rotterdam