ARTBOX.PROJECT New York 1.0 Nadja Petrovic

Nadja Petrovic (1991) academic painter, born in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. She holds graduate and master degree of the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Graduated in 2013 at the department of painting and drawing, and MFA at the department of visual arts and new expressive form 2017. During 2009, she visited and stayed at Central Saint Martins College of art and design in London, England, for several courses. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad. The main and honorable place in her poetics has the man and his emotional and effective condition. Getting closer to the human face and body, she plunges under the skin, under what is visible on the surface, the moments of standing on the edge, human liminal states. Her paintbrush emphasizes the conditions of tension and anxiety, trauma and suffering, the moments of standing on the edge, human liminal states. Her unconventional portraits and acts point to the impossibility of defining the subject as a whole, one dimensional and monadic. The subject in her artistic poetics is complex, multi-layered, multiplied with herself and never identical to herself; is in a constant movement and a constant search for himself and his own wholeness. These are the main elements in her canvases, on the one hand, a twitch, and on the other hand, a movement, emphasized by a special painting technique in many of the paintings. The texts that are subtly written on the faces and bodies of the represented entities point to the infinite textuality of the world that creates, writes, and often marks.