About the exhibition

The exhibition Immobile Things by artist Marija Dragojlović explores the relationship between objects, memory, and perception, in which everyday items are transformed into carriers of emotional and visual meaning.

Starting from seemingly modest, ordinary objects from her immediate environment, the artist removes them from their functional context and places them into a space of attentive observation and pictorial transformation. Through processes of enlargement and drawing, these objects acquire a new scale and status, where their materiality, traces of use, and tactile irregularities become the central elements of the work.

The exhibition investigates how shifts in scale affect the perception and meaning of objects, turning them from functional items into visual records of duration and memory. Objects such as fans, combs, wooden shoe lasts, and other everyday artefacts become “images of things,” preserving an intimate history of touch, use, and time.

A special focus is placed on fans, which in Dragojlović’s practice move from functional and communicative objects into abstract compositional structures that organize rhythm, space, and meaning within the image.

In the context of contemporary accelerated consumer culture, the exhibition emphasizes a logic of attention and slowed perception, where existing objects are not replaced but re-read and re-valued through artistic intervention. In this way, the works open a space for reflecting on memory, duration, and the emotional value of the things that surround us.

Curator: Mia David