Roses wounds
'Roses wounds' is a series that documents the beginning and end of my life in Belgrade, and the progression of sorrow that follows it.
On the eve of my arrival in Belgrade, I got a rose from Sale, a rose seller who'll later become a seemingly ubiquitous part of my nocturnal movements. Our paths would cross, he'd give me a rose, we'd sing a song I usually didn’t know the words to. I'd ask how he's doing. He'd complain. Sale sold roses at night for 38 years. He sold them in cafes to the woozy romantics.
In the eight months in Belgrade before the Pandemic started and I made my way back to Užice, a whole lot happened. And these works are not about Sale. But they are about roses and the strange days of happiness and failure of happiness.
But Bowie says it better
Rose from Sale 2019
Digital print on photo paper
12cm x 15cm
Conjointed 2018
Digital print on photo paper
30cm x 40cm
Crying diptych 2019
Digital prints on photo paper
left:5cm x 5cm
right:6cm x 6cm
Time takes a cigarette 2019
Digital print on photo paper
30cm x 30cm
Ashes to... 2018
Ink on self
Digital print on photo paper
4cm x 5cm
Hit it with kindness 2019
video
Duration: 1 minute
left:
Let me spell it out for you 2019
The hand spells rose in Cyrillic
r + uža s̶
ружа-rose
ужас-horror
Digital print on photo paper
12cm x 15cm
right:
Down-side Up 2021
Digital print on photo paper
12cm x 15cm
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then cigarette 2019
Digital print on photo paper
15cm x 19cm
Five years lyric alteration 2020
Digital print on photo paper
10cm x 12cm
Jean genie lyric alterations 2020
Digital prints on photo paper
10cm x 12cm
Babe you turn me on lyric alterations 2020
Digital prints on photo paper
10cm x 12cm
Reparations 2019
Digital print on photo paper
30cm x 40cm
fifteenth of march 2020
Digital print on photo paper
20cm x 25cm
Fin. 2021
Digital print on photo paper
20cm x 25cm

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