The basis of my works has always been within the context of social (in)justice. From my own experience, it has become clear that it is not us who decide what happens to our time and our lives. I was interested in how society as a whole works, in what way we are forced to change our desires over time; what lies beneath the surface of actual society, how circumstances within culture shape us and how the place we grew up shaped our future. That place also shaped our personal mental landscapes; it became a part of us, and we are a part of it. The works in the exhibition show large, barren landscapes that look desolate and abandoned, and where time has stopped. They represent our private accumulated, conceptual habitat, our circumstances; the place we come from. I work slowly, each drawing starts in a corner of the sheet and carefully spreads out, one line determines the next, nothing is sketched in advance and nothing is erased afterwards. The drawings are based on photographs and memories.
Natasa Kokic (b. 1979 in Belgrade). MA from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, is now working on his doctorate. In 2001, she participated in her first of a number of group exhibitions at home and abroad, and since her first solo exhibition in 2002, she has exhibited regularly. Kokic has been on residency in the Netherlands, Serbia and Iceland. Her works have been purchased for both private and public collections. Lives and works in Belgrade and Oslo.
