Visual Arts Exhibitions Summer 2011
June 18 - September 25, 2011
Bozica Radjenovic, Sweater for a Pine Tree, 2011. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Sweater for a Pine Tree
Bozica Radjenovic
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Ottawa-based artist presents new work which investigates the relationship between material, constructed form and language.
Wool acts as a fibrous connection back to my childhood and the homeland I emigrated from. It references my Serbian mother’s endless knitting of woollen items to protect the family from the cold. My work echoes this nurturing compulsion, though it extends to objects in the Canadian landscape. In 2001 my family moved into a new house with a backyard facing a forest. The forest was cut down to make room for a new development site. I knit a sweater for the trees of the forest I could not protect. The shape of the void within my soft sculptures suggests the haptic memory of bodies and objects now absent.
– Bozica Radjenovic
Bozica Radjenovic is a sculptress who lives and works in Ottawa. Born and educated in Belgrade, Serbia, she received her Master of Arts degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade in 1991. She moved to Canada in 1993. Radjenovic has had several solo and numerous group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Her work can be seen in various private collections and in the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade. Her current work explores the relationship between belonging, integrity and identity.
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