Montenegro
2025-2026
This series is dedicated to the beauty of Montenegro's Flora and Fauna. The deep, green forests, old mountain paths and many signs from wild creatures have the power to envelope and fill the mind of anyone. The land is filled with life and movement. A running spring, a bird in a bush, the wind in the leaves… This music has a calming and healing power to restore balance. And even in the stillest moments, it’s possible to feel and hear it.
Nevertheless, some alien objects are proof that this land is also shared with humans. These objects are a reminder, that not all human behavior and actions are aimed at helping our planet and investing in our future. For now, these small things are just footprints, but soon, all put together, they will create real history.
Every time I wander around the forest of my village Mojdez or on one of many amazing trails of Montenegro, i ask myself these questions: How do our actions reflect on the world around us? What are the things we can do to make this place a bit better than before? Is it possible to preserve this beauty and help it flourish?
While I’m searching for the answers through my art and outdoor exploration, I decide to start with myself and to be more mindful of the world around me.
Helping Hand
2024
"Experience is not what happens to a person, but what a person does with what happens to him." (O. Huxley)
There is an overgrown path ahead, water flows on both sides. Something flickers in the grass. It becomes alarming. Coming closer, you can see a forest of yellow hands frozen over the river. It seems that they are reaching for the sky. Or, on the contrary, they want to pull you to the bottom?
You suddenly notice your reflection. You stand, and around you are hands: they are frozen in anticipation. As if waiting for something. And then you understand that you need to make a choice...
Our world is created in such a way that a person is not able to control all the events that happen. But still, every day you have to make decisions, make a choice. A choice in accordance with your morality and ethics. In the event of a disaster, when all feelings are heightened and primitive instincts are awakened, a person is given the opportunity to truly look at himself, at his actions, at the world around him. He is given the opportunity to make a choice: to lend a helping hand or to close his eyes and turn away? To save or to be saved? To accept his path openly or to hide from its lessons?
A disaster becomes a mirror capable of revealing the true face. It is capable of revealing hidden strengths and abilities or awakening something dark, immoral. And this choice is behind each of us.
Red Anti-Biennale (Krasnenkaya)
Curator Ekaterina Vasilyeva
Helping Hand
2024
"Experience is not what happens to a person, but what a person does with what happens to him." (O. Huxley)
There is an overgrown path ahead, water flows on both sides. Something flickers in the grass. It becomes alarming. Coming closer, you can see a forest of yellow hands frozen over the river. It seems that they are reaching for the sky. Or, on the contrary, they want to pull you to the bottom?
You suddenly notice your reflection. You stand, and around you are hands: they are frozen in anticipation. As if waiting for something. And then you understand that you need to make a choice...
Our world is created in such a way that a person is not able to control all the events that happen. But still, every day you have to make decisions, make a choice. A choice in accordance with your morality and ethics. In the event of a disaster, when all feelings are heightened and primitive instincts are awakened, a person is given the opportunity to truly look at himself, at his actions, at the world around him. He is given the opportunity to make a choice: to lend a helping hand or to close his eyes and turn away? To save or to be saved? To accept his path openly or to hide from its lessons?
A disaster becomes a mirror capable of revealing the true face. It is capable of revealing hidden strengths and abilities or awakening something dark, immoral. And this choice is behind each of us.
Red Anti-Biennale (Krasnenkaya)
Curator Ekaterina Vasilyeva
Helping Hand
2024
"Experience is not what happens to a person, but what a person does with what happens to him." (O. Huxley)
There is an overgrown path ahead, water flows on both sides. Something flickers in the grass. It becomes alarming. Coming closer, you can see a forest of yellow hands frozen over the river. It seems that they are reaching for the sky. Or, on the contrary, they want to pull you to the bottom?
You suddenly notice your reflection. You stand, and around you are hands: they are frozen in anticipation. As if waiting for something. And then you understand that you need to make a choice...
Our world is created in such a way that a person is not able to control all the events that happen. But still, every day you have to make decisions, make a choice. A choice in accordance with your morality and ethics. In the event of a disaster, when all feelings are heightened and primitive instincts are awakened, a person is given the opportunity to truly look at himself, at his actions, at the world around him. He is given the opportunity to make a choice: to lend a helping hand or to close his eyes and turn away? To save or to be saved? To accept his path openly or to hide from its lessons?
A disaster becomes a mirror capable of revealing the true face. It is capable of revealing hidden strengths and abilities or awakening something dark, immoral. And this choice is behind each of us.
Red Anti-Biennale (Krasnenkaya)
Curator Ekaterina Vasilyeva