Exhibition of Rector’s award
Faculty of Fine Art’s Gallery, BelgradeYear: 2023
‘’Generation "ZED" or "digital natives," as referred to by sociologists, encompasses the individuals born between 1990 and 2010. This generation is distinguished by their complete dependence on digital media and platforms, which must be taken into consideration when analyzing their works in traditional art disciplines, as they often consist of multimedia components. Despite the numerous difficulties this generation faced while growing up, including economic crisis, wars, terrorism, and the COVID 19 pandemic, which has affected the end of their academic education, the largest challenge they faced was being educated by the previous generation, who grew up with television and print media. This gap in the formatting of visual content was the biggest challenge for me in terms of pedagogy.
Dragana Lukić is an artist for whom art does not serve to acquire and confirm social status, but to configure ontological determination in real life. We can say about Dragana that she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, but nothing more than that, because we can fall into the problem of formalism.
Instead, her work should be defined by a specific time frame, as she believes that everything can be placed in a certain time frame. Her works are not just prints but graphic representations, even lexically formalized sets of concepts or visual content are a form of graphic representation, instead of an ordered and lexically expressed thought or meaning.
In her Naïve Set Theory, every piece of information, no matter how trivial, is given importance. By utilizing statistics, she elevates trivial facts extracted from a pre-defined whole and contextualizes them in a monumental way. This method, thanks to its sensitivity and artistic suggestiveness, has become a paradigm of new art.”
D.A. Professor Adam Pantic
