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Carl Kostyál is delighted to present ‘HOPE AND REBIRTH’ by Belgrade-born artist Maja Djordjevic. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, following her debut at Carl Kostyál London in 2020.
While building her new body of work, now on show at Carl Kostyál, Maja Djordjevic felt as though she was watching the world fall apart. A uniquely porous individual, Djordjevic internalises others’ pain and experiences it as if it were her own. This quality, both precious and burdensome, often leaves the artist feeling powerless. In the spring, she wrote in her journals, “Za sve one preplakane bitke, gde nisam mogla nista da uradim” (For all the battles I cry, but I couldn’t do nothing). Unamenable to translation, this polysemous phrase encapsulates the artist’s immense empathy, alongside the search for agency, restoration, equality and tranquillity at the heart of her recent work.
These longings are unfailingly manifested through Djordjevic’s iconic, nude female figure – a…
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Carl Kostyál is delighted to present ‘HOPE AND REBIRTH’ by Belgrade-born artist Maja Djordjevic. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, following her debut at Carl Kostyál London in 2020.
While building her new body of work, now on show at Carl Kostyál, Maja Djordjevic felt as though she was watching the world fall apart. A uniquely porous individual, Djordjevic internalises others’ pain and experiences it as if it were her own. This quality, both precious and burdensome, often leaves the artist feeling powerless. In the spring, she wrote in her journals, “Za sve one preplakane bitke, gde nisam mogla nista da uradim” (For all the battles I cry, but I couldn’t do nothing). Unamenable to translation, this polysemous phrase encapsulates the artist’s immense empathy, alongside the search for agency, restoration, equality and tranquillity at the heart of her recent work.
These longings are unfailingly manifested through Djordjevic’s iconic, nude female figure – a…
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