VOX FEMINAE info about the artist:
http://www.voxfeminae.net/info-baza/umjetnice/likovna/item/8550-petra-brnardic
Designed.rs announcement:
http://www.designed.rs/news/petra_brndaric_izlaze_u_boonici
Text from the catalogue:
Just after Fastnacht has banished evil, Petra Brnardić calls the witches back out at Boonika with her exhibition Walpurgisnacht. The name can be taken as referential towards the creator or the created. As purveyors of sinful and devilish deeds, „witches“ are forever society's scapegoats easily fingered whenever the common folk inevitably come to odds with themselves, turning on anything queer. Branded as demonic these dark sisters are so in a unique position to indulge in taboo practices, accepting of society's spurn, exposing hidden meanings by unconventional means to inquisitive minds. Some may call them dark arts but they may shed more light on the cracks of everyday life than most self proclaimed righteous Diogenes. Petra's pursuit of divulgence of vulgarity of civil practices and hypocrisy of established social norms leads down the path of sex, violence, suppression, terror and beauty. And makes her one of the coven.
Walpurgsnacht is brought into life entirely by
digital collage technique, reimagining photographic material by copy-pasting
while taking advantages of the mediums many FX options. Completely unapologetic
for her use of modern media the artist meticulously crafted a downpour of color
and imagery. The assembled visions come off like Russ Mayer on acid shot into
Kubrick’s third eye. The work is an absolute abstract explosion of flesh,
unearthed basement pleasures and probation of female etiquette. Fleshy and
flashy, as much a graphic ransom note as 4th dimension tarot card the collages
unwaveringly pose rhetorical questions on female sexuality, religion, cruelty, pleasure
and Darwinian theories. Taking time to
examine the work will produce perhaps contrary feelings in so much that it
surely reaches for feminist doctrines but not in the popular sanctimonious
manner. The final products are contortions of the psyche, devouring and
releasing, offering arousal and disgust, dangerous as kissing under and eating
the mistletoe too.
Like pages of a deviant holy book, Petra's
collages are lurid slivers of an uncomfortable reality with a glimpse of
redemption in starry skies. A colorful crooked garden of Eden made by an outcast,
a sort of boogyman, or boogywoman if you will! Her inner visions mesh realities
brought together by carnal desires and heaven and hell making it difficult to distinct
real from unreal. Her work may be pulp but is it fiction?
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