Universal pictures Sculpture

Born in Lyons in 1986 of a French mother and Serbian father, I grew up in a singular cultural blend. Fascinated since my younger age by conjuring, in its capacity to produce a “reality effect”, I joined in 2006 the ENSBA school of Lyon that I attended until my graduation in 2011. Confronted to the “world of images” and to their “frame” – the artistic frame –, my interest for magic then becomes inherent to my work process. At the junction between art and conjuring, my current work takes shape in a dynamic of deconstruction and re-presentation and interferes in our relationship to the real world as well as to the artwork. The real world, confronted to its “image” and perceptual context, thus finds itself brought into play. "By dealing with the frontiers of reality, the plausibility of images gained during the various “pictorial turns” disrupts our relationship with reality. Having studied and practiced the art of illusionism, more than that of representation, it is the power of images, their ability to produce an effect of reality or a belief, that interests me now." Nicolas Jargić