NADEŽDA KIRĆANSKI
Born in 1992
Nadežda Kirćanski expresses herself mainly through drawing and installation, exploring the contrast among different sociopolitical realities and the social, emotional, intellectual and material life of the younger generation in Serbia. The exploration of space, whether public or private, allows the artist to highlight contradictions, short-circuits, conditioning or oppression systems which are not identifiable at first sight. Her approach triggers an intense recounting, both personal and collective, focusing on the reality in which she lives. Kirćanski’s environmental installation not much 1.0 (2018), reproposed at the 58th October Salon, is an example of the artist’s research. Set up as a simple hospital waiting room, and consisting of painted walls and modular seating, the piece magnifies a sense of anguished suspension, the burden of disappointed expectations, the displacement between promises of support not kept by the current political system, and the impossibility for young people to act and react. While analyzing the material, political and social context of the artist’s country, Kirćanski’s work proposes a reflection on the dream as hope, utopia, the possibility of a change that starts mainly from becoming aware of the state of things.