May 24 – June 9, 2018

Dragana Antonić, the author of the exhibition “Study of Nude” strives to give a contribution through her own creative work or, more precisely, to confirm that by using technical-technological expressive features of digital photography and the process of its subsequent digital processing, the nude can be treated as an authentic visual and stylistic form within the unique author’s handwriting.

“If the culture of the twentieth century is marked by the vulgarisation of the human, primarily the female body, where it becomes the subject of commercialisation, banalisation and dark pornography, the works of Dragana Antonić reveal the desire to give that body an aura of spirituality, because what is our body if not a house of spirit? These nudes are the essence, the concentrate of bodily beauty, because they distinguish the lines of the divine light from the darkness of life. This spiritual erotica, sung of in the greatest poems, is manifested here through clear lines, flashes, which celebrate the aesthetics of what is transient and mortal. The works of Dragana Antonić are captured moments and praise of this transient and unforgettable beauty.” (Mile Stojić, translated by Hana Logo)

“Underlying the concept of ‘study’ is a deliberate, reflexively controlled process of observation, object or theme analysis, and selection of image elements, their structural/compositional organisation, interaction, and/or reduction. The thematically seductive theme of the nude (an ‘eternal theme’ in the non-transparent spectrum of variations as well as cultural and anthropological contextualisations in the artistic and historical experience) in Dragana Antonić’s study of the nude is illuminated in the author’s special perspective − in a unique light event. More specifically, Dragana Antonić reaches into the very substance of the photographic image, into light (which, in turn, cosmologically, psychologically and ontologically) constitutes the creative primordial element of the world, the building pre-matter of Everything, the visibility of the world and human experience.“ (Sulejman Bosto, translated by Hana Logo)