Vesna Knežević
Mima’s Cake
Take a photo, tear it apart and join the pieces together again – and
you will create a new picture with small white lines connecting or
separating the integral area, providing a new view of the scene, and
introducing a new meaning into the observed view. This simple at-
tempt to create new meanings through a variety of visual art practi-
ces typical of collage also includes associative capabilities of both the
creator and the consumer.
Miracles happen in collages, and instead of the real and the fam-
iliar, they open the door into another world. The background, which
only hints at all the opportunities it presents, provides proper recom-
mendations for the way to view the displayed situation, as a repeated
occurrence of the personal act through a personal experience of the
fragmented reality. The magic and the newly won freedom allow the
artist to embody the role of a wise man who shakes the world and,
playing with reality, achieves new goals.
And so we come to Mima and her fine and passionate playful-
ness with collages. With her long, slender fingers and sharp eye, she
travels through the realms of other people’s writings on life and all
the different forms of life, and then slowly and carefully cuts the im-
portant parts with her eyes, body and soul, and weaves them into a
whole. And lo and behold! A new life and new forms slowly emerge
in front of us.
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