Nadežda Kirćanski – nista spec 1.0 / nothing special 1.0, 2018-2024

Nadežda Kirćanski expresses herself primarily through drawing and installation. She investigates the contrast between sociopolitical realities and the social, emotional, intellectual and material life of young people in Serbia. Her exploration of space, whether public or private, enables her to draw attention to contradictions and systems of conditioning or control in everyday life. Her approach produces a distinctive narrative, both personal and collective, centred on the reality in which she lives.

Nadežda Kirćanski’s work recreates a moment of powerlessness and vulnerability: waiting for medical treatment. The installation consists of photographic projections, a circular bench and a central plant, and replicates a medical waiting room. The seats are side by side but not facing each other, which prevents any visual contact between visitors. Entitled nista spec 1.0 / nothing special 1.0, the work takes its title from the evasive answer often given to the question “What’s new?”. For the artist, language, in its starkest and simplest form, carries within itself the wounds of contemporary society: in this case, lack of empathy, denial of hardship and the vain expectation of any resolution.