An interview by and
, curator curator
Biljana Bakaluca
the art in the previously known Yugoslavia tried to preserve their own dignity. This situation inspired me to explore the different media which was reflected in my creative work.
My first art experience was gained as a student and my work has been strongly influenced by work at the academy but even then I felt that I was somebody who was looking for my own expression in my own world. I learned a lot from my teacher Poznanović Bogdanka, one important figure in the so-called new artistic practice of the seventies. Her lectures refreshed my thinking and introduced me to something new. At that time, in very dramatic terms,
I had been researching in the field of painting but at the same time I was directed by new media: installation, object or video work. I felt painting as something very personal but some other media (installation, video works) directed me to cooperate with
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