The work was performed in the service of the archive process, in the form of collection of bacteria from my own body. The samples were transferred to an environment conducive to growth and development. The sum of the collected bacteria showing the presence of invisible organisms on the body of the host.

 Artist’s portrait

Current state // Artist's collection // 2016.

Project "Current state" represents an archive of personal belongings of the artist through photographs. Taking object created in the process of mass production, is a general act which is characteristic of the process of creating personal collection. Personal things in this case are referred to as "objects" are listed by numbers, stored in a particular category. Through this process it becomes depersonalized, transformed into photographic documents that resemble examples from the catalog of consumer culture, so the observer in the most cases identify with them. This archive works in a particular space and time, these objects are private, but this act cease to be and become objects of universal significance. This in many ways raises many questions, and it is related to social, economic, consumer but also a political aspect.

Current state // Artist's collection

Portrait MCAB // 2014.

The work “Portrait of MCAB” is not only about the issue of Museum as a space, which has been closed for some time; it is also about Museum s existence in time, as well as the biological aspect. Given that I have not had a chance to visit the interior of the Museum, neither when it was open for public nor now, I can infer that I do not have a relationship with it, and see it merely as one building in line building rotting away in Belgrade. The issue of time imposes itself repeatedly , and brings me to wonder whether this building could in anyway be alive to me. This is the reason I decided to take a swab off the building as the only way to interact with it, but also to bring to light that no matters just how much we thought the Museum was dead, it occasionally and temporarily comes to life like this. the image starts to appear organically, and which was actually provided by the building itself, speaks not only about passage of time but its evident history, and nothingness it leaves behind.
Considering all this, this type of work is temporary, much like my opportunity to meet Museum; it provied an additional data, which was thus made tangible.

Portrait MCAB

Artist’s portrait // 2014.

The work was performed in the service of the archive process, in the form of collection of bacteria from my own body. The samples were transferred to an environment conducive to growth and development. The sum of the collected bacteria showing the presence of invisible organisms on the body of the host.

Artist’s portrait

Spomenar/Artist book // 2013.

This work is based on collecting various damages of skin, of people who are in some sort of contact with the author. In this way, through photography, and brief notes of the same, I have done the archiving process of human skin as portraits through rejecting any kind of emotion. The work is conceived as a kind of the scrapbook that is constantly upgraded.


Spomenar/Artist book

Physical identity // 2014.

Author uses the model of antique portrait as one possible canon of human beauty. By adjusting her own manipulated portrait (using a mask showing ideal human facial proportions) as well as antique female faces, mainly examples of superhuman beauty, she performs a kind of experiment by animating dead and on some level imaginary form. By doing so, the author indicates an issue in perceiving human face through prism of gender.

Physical identity

Family portrait // 2014.

In this work a model of a mask representing ideal facial proportion was used, and mask was made upon golden ratio model. Photographs of all family members were corrected with a usage of this mask, and in installation they were put in a row. Markers were put upon basic marks of human face in order to define “ideal” as good as possible. In this way work resembles not only a problem of imperfection of human form, but also an inability of perceiving such a model in a family, which is represented like ideal and fundamental unit of society.

30x40cm, portraits printed on the foil set on preksiglas

Family portrait

Artist’s gloves // 2014.

Work represents taking prints from the hand of the artist, creating a unique usable object (gloves, made of latex). The subject indicates the question of mass production in the world in general, and the mass production of art, and therefore raises another issue of authenticity of the product itself. Taking direct prints from artists skin, leads us to giving and taking personal identity, which is also
used in translating to massive identity, and therefore it raises another question of consuming personal items or your own body (skin, in this case a work of art).

Gloves are made of latex, and each pair contains the label containing the name of the act, which is never repeated (100% pure skin artist, skin 100% error, 99.9% artist imprint …).

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Tijana Radenkovic