Đurđa Sivački

Đurđa Sivački (1981, Belgrade) will never paint a face, or even a silhouette. Yet her paintings are crowded with human presence and activity. Her empty studios, drawing rooms, hallways, classrooms or faceless facades are all aching with toil and sweat and expectations. Instead of representing people, she paints what people do, or hope to do, or just did. The palette, sometimes rich with deep earth tones or subdued with cloudy grey, is indicative of what can or should happen within the space she describes in so minute details. Switching from generous brushstrokes to pointillism, unbound by colour or size, Sivački projects on the canvas the contents of her life, as it is or as it could be. The image is literally free so the viewer can project his/her own life in it, making it possible to fill it with different emotions each time it is presented to our eyes. It's a blank slate for the mind, but so gorgeously blank.