Isidora Banjac and Marijana Đaković discussed the current exhibition The Spring.
How important is the material we use in art and how it influences the concept of the artwork. What happens after the Academy of Arts?! And how important are awards and opportunities!
Marijana Đaković was born on May 20, 1999 in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a fourth-year student of Intermedia Art at the Academy of Arts and a senior in Graphic Engineering at the Faculty of Technology in Banja Luka.
She has exhibited in several collective exhibitions, including the annual exhibitions of the Academy of Arts in 2021, 2022 and 2023. She participated in the international exhibition "Should I stay or should I go?" in Limanski Park in Novi Sad, Serbia, as part of the Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture 2022 project, where she won the main prize. Exhibitions she also participated in in 2022 include: "On the Quiet Side of the Street" at the Bitef Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, "Superexposure 02" at the Cultural Center in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the art intervention in public space "Traffic Signs" in the Petar Kočić Park in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka for the best intermedia work in 2023, as well as the "Vagon" gallery award for the most promising work in 2023. She participated in the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts program in 2023. In her work, she expresses herself through installation, text, drawings, and uses experience from various crafts, such as tailoring and sewing.
She deals with space and various materials from mechanics, construction and crafts. The starting point in her work is often her closest environment, where through their individual stories she permeates broader social themes. Her works often balance between extremes: at the same time gentle and violent, aesthetically appealing and raw. Part of her artistic identity is the deconstruction of stereotypes, ambivalence, exploration of identity and gender roles, the layering of female experience
