It Takes an Island to Feel This Good

Artists

Darja Bajagić

Press release

National Participation - Montenegro

Her project, will present a critical consideration of the culture of collective memory and our relationship to shared historical heritage. Through painting and sculpture, the artist will examine and reflect upon these themes, focusing on the complex and multidimensional history of the Montenegrin island of Mamula. Bajagić has spent two years researching Mamula’s history, specifically changes in its rule and function, in Montenegrin state archives; this collected material serves as the starting point for the artist’s visual compositions. The iconography of the paintings will combine the aforementioned archival material with distinctive referential and symbolical interventions, characteristic of Bajagić’s work.

Commissioner: Vladislav Šćepanović
Curator: Ana Simona Zelenović