The series of paintings "Ada Bojana" is primarily characterised by past memories of familiar landscapes - those places where I have been searching for a meaning between nostalgia and loss. The feeling of restlessness, coupled with pleasure, comes and goes as if by magic, takes me back to distant and carefree times, lets me play with temporality. The paintings depict a well-known nudist camp, Ada Bojana. Bare nature, simplicity and repetition of architecture have remained unchanged from the time I spent summers with my family, isolated from the rest of the world. In my paintings, that past is reflected through absence, that is, through existing condition whereby the connection between "then" and "now" becomes a vital segment for understanding memories. The emptiness of the space is evident, registered in fragments that signal the absence of people and infrastructural negligence, which is directly related to the transience of photography as a medium - also a starting point in this series. The dominant sentiment is that of missing the world as it used to be, which I have been trying to document and additionally monumentalise in my paintings, for one last time before the physical destruction of the resort.
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