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Trotoar is pleased to present Saccharine Idyll, a new solo exhibition by Martina Grlić, one of Croatia’s most acclaimed contemporary painters. Recognized for her distinctive figurative style, Grlić draws on family albums and archival photographs to create subtly distorted recollections that explore the persistence of nostalgia, ideology, and cultural patterns in everyday life. In this latest cycle, she deepens her examination of memory’s fragility and shifting representations of femininity, transforming sentimentality into a pointed critique.
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
-Joan Didion
Martina Grlić’s Saccharine Idyll draws us in like the tastiest of morsels. It offers a feeling of security and comfort, scenes of simple pleasures and happy memories. Everything seems familiar, harmless, and so we dive into our own recollections. Yet the moment we slip and bite down, a worm writhes free.
Stories are created out of necessity. Out of the struggle to make…
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Trotoar is pleased to present Saccharine Idyll, a new solo exhibition by Martina Grlić, one of Croatia’s most acclaimed contemporary painters. Recognized for her distinctive figurative style, Grlić draws on family albums and archival photographs to create subtly distorted recollections that explore the persistence of nostalgia, ideology, and cultural patterns in everyday life. In this latest cycle, she deepens her examination of memory’s fragility and shifting representations of femininity, transforming sentimentality into a pointed critique.
From the exhibition text:
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
-Joan Didion
Martina Grlić’s Saccharine Idyll draws us in like the tastiest of morsels. It offers a feeling of security and comfort, scenes of simple pleasures and happy memories. Everything seems familiar, harmless, and so we dive into our own recollections. Yet the moment we slip and bite down, a worm writhes free.
Stories are created out of necessity. Out of the struggle to make…
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