Bojana Atlija

fundamentally, i am a sculptor. i do drawings, wall paintings, sculptures and installations.

in drawings, i do not insist on predefined work, but rather on being in conversation with it while it is happening. like walking in the streets without a predestined path. i try to be a spectator, explain it to myself upon the completion or i let other people do so.

from drawings i transfer to sculpture, embodiment, but i am trying to make them as spontaneous as they can be. i want other people to embrace them as entities, coexistent, as a part of themselves, as a part of a common picture we all stand in, as an evidence of now and here.

wall drawings are in most of the cases connected to architecture in which they appear and disappear. they occupy a room or more rooms and i believe they need a lot of space for their presence to become definite and overwhelming and to create significant physical influence on the spectator. this is how i make sculptures that are just outlined, but actually, spectator is entering a sculpture by entering a room. it is about crossing a line between sculpture as a 3d form and sculpture which is actually a drawing. the scale of the work is always in relation to human, or to space. wall drawings are the...

faculty of fine arts, belgrade, RS, sculpture