The exhibition “Fragments of Time“ presents the latest production by Marija Dragojlović, an artist whose tireless explorations of arts to date have secured her a prominent place in Serbia’s contemporary art.

The artist deals with her topic in a way which places importance on everyday life, personal relationships as well as family relationships, which she sees as the key set of communal values and which should not be forgotten. She looks at the past and takes us with her on a journey through it by using collections of her own family photos and mementos, pervaded with a particular atmosphere combining remembrance and oblivion, with present memories serving as special places of interchange between the private and the public.

The exhibition consists of five segments, all created in the last five years: Family Summer Holiday Photos, Sunset Picture Postcards, Nostalgia, Serenissima and The Marble Sea lightbox, with contact prints of a long-lost photographic film. The artist used old family photos and picture postcards sent from holidays for the first three segments; they comprise black-and-white prints made on traditional photographic paper and coloured with coloured pencils. The Serenissima series was made in Venice, whose unique atmosphere and old facades fascinated the artist, inspiring her to make a series of photographs, which she coloured and retouched using a special technique, digital printing on watercolour paper.

Marija Dragojlović was born in Šabac in 1950. She was a longtime professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975, followed by a master’s degree in painting in 1977. Along with several solo shows, she has presented her work in many collaborative national and international exhibitions. She is the winner of a number of prestigious awards in the fields of contemporary fine arts and contemporary visual arts, among which the October Salon Painting Award (1984); Great Prize of the Nadežda Petrović Memorial (1984); Ivan Tabaković Foundation Award (2007); Politika Daily Vladislav Ribnikar Foundation Award (2010); and Sava Šumanović Visual Arts Award (2016).

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