Survival is one of the most basic instincts. It is deeply rooted in our nature, almost like the human ability to forget. In fact, even forgetting, unseeing and distorting our memories are survival mechanisms. This forgetfulness and blindness can easily deceive our minds and lead us towards collective delusions, destruction and extinction. The 'BLACK is bLack' series attempts to record and remember some fragments of our past and our present which is very black, even when yellow, whitish or gray.

BLACK is bLack

It depicts the process through which our memories are crystallizing during exposure to new experiences. Memories are often fluid and capable of reshaping in the light of new information. During that process we may change our perception on how we see the world around us as well as how we remember the past. Often, our memories enable us to create a robust and stable vision of the world as well as of our own identity. However, thanks to the fluidity we are capable of accommodating new experiences into the continuous puzzle of life by means of creation and recreation of memories, where every moment might bring something diverse and unexpected. New knowledge. New sensations. New discoveries.  New cultures. New memories. New identity.

Collection of Memories

The collection captures horizon as the meeting point of our past, present, and future. The abstract forms emerging on the horizon aim at triggering a personal perception of contemporary society and its landscape.

Horizon

The Strings collection (2018-2019) captures human characters and emotions expressed in their daily interactions, situations when they experience joy, excitement, fear, and ambition that leads them to achieve their dreams. Sometimes, these interactions may result in comic and dramatic exercises of human nature that the Strings embody. The collection is made by combining ink and acrylic on paper.
The author, Alex Sojic, art.sojic.org
Strings Collection Catalogue - https://issuu.com/sojic.org/docs/strings_collection  

Strings

The collection 'Faces' explores human diversity. It questions  how different forms of expression can depict human features and individual characters. Along this artistic experiment, different perspectives and techniques are intentionally combined as to demonstrate that the faces cannot be stripped out of their environment and socio-cultural context that profoundly contribute to our vision of identity. Every single ‘face’ from this collection is telling her/his own story on her/his own way. 

The Faces catalogue available on https://issuu.com/sojic.org/docs/faces_collection

Faces - Shifting the point of view

Life in a contemporary city may provoke strong feelings of excitement, chaos, repulsion, order, fulfilment, and loneliness. 'In the city' collection of paintings captures the unity of these apparently contrasting sensations addressed by numerous cultural, social, and anthropological studies. A direct and raw form of expression in these paintings manage to communicate, through a visual medium, the controversial emotions that coexist. The paintings 'speak' about the topics that are persistently escaping every attempt of verbal communication. 

In the City

The X-scapes collection is revisiting the traditional landscapes-theme. The paintings blend imaginary and realistic representations, particularly emphasising the experience of presence in the new and unexplored places. 'X' in the title of this collection stands for locations (land, sea, sky, etc) that represent triggers of new experience as they help observers to escape from their daily mind-paths. The sense of presence in these unexplored locations emerges from the painting-technique used to create some realistic and tactile textures that vary in their luminosity, refraction, and roughness. 

X-scapes

Morpheus Collection consists of artworks that tackle the concepts of time, space, and emotions explored and represented by means of technology and new media.  
Morpheus is a god associated with sleep and dreams. This collection, however, goes beyond a 'dreamy feeling' and attempts to grasp information and common knowledge that scientific and technological advancements bring to us. It merges intuitive and subconscious with scientific and conscious perception and understanding of the world around and within us.