Favorite Illusion XII Sculpture

Favorite Illusion XII is a wall sculpture with a frame that follows the shape of the artwork and creates an optical Illusion. It was made of acrylic on canvas pressed on the MDF board pressed on cardboard and framed. The Frame series was exhibited at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn (2022), in Paris at Carrousel de Louvre (2022), in Banja Luka at Banski Dvor (2021), and in Venice at the Room Contemporary Art Space (2020). “Zeljka Paic has created art that has broken free of its boundaries. While the frames are not discarded, they are re-arranged, opened up or rendered porous so as to unchain the art within and allow it to seep, swirl, crawl or strike out beyond its customary limitations and venture beyond into some other place. What place is this? That we do not know is what makes it so alluring, so daring, so dangerous. The magic lies in the mystery. Paic is not so much exploring as allowing for the possibility of exploration. By removing the constraints, she wants to free both the art and the viewer to dare to sally forth into realms as yet uncharted. Even the names invoke the primal impulses to discovery: ‘Curiosity’, ‘Exceed’, ‘Persistence’, ‘Bridges’. We are fragile beings who may not survive rugged mountains, arid deserts or treacherous seas and while these physical barriers may limit us, our minds and our intellects are unbound and unlimited. Paic challenges us to permit them to strike out beyond the sullen confines of our lives, so often self-imposed.” David J. K. Carr