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Simonida Rajčević (1974)

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Snake – Wall

Ancient Egyptians believed that every human being consists of physical and spiritual parts called aspects. Besides body, every human has its Shwt (shadow), Ba (personality or soul),  Ka (life force) and Ren (the name).


Throughout the wall, Simonida Rajcevic creates a form of labyrinth, resembling the halls of Egyptian tombs, where the life of the painted bodies is induced by mythical chronology. This pyramidal association gives narrative symbolism to Simonida’s bodies, drawing the observer into the (angular) center of the painting. The observer, then, realizes that the snakes, like other beings, are merely part of gradation, a sequence that leads to a non-thematic solution.


Since the very nature of canvas is to be artificially placed on concrete, it will sooner or later leave its walls in the finite form of a construction’s end, and this very act of infidelity brings about a new interpretation angle to each new background with which the paintings are conjoined.


The snakes are here to scare away gods, but not a figurative journey free with its layered conotations. With this, Simonida Rajcevic blends Western journey with Eastern space. In this borderline territory, gods are integral part of Eastern mimic, but their bodies are victims of Western artistic feast which the painter, like Dionises, gives in honor of the Nitschean history of the world. 


Marko Kostiic

(Translation by Helena Đorđevic)


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