SAFARI (2015)
Safari is a photographic series inspired by the use of animal prints and imitations of animal skins and furs in everyday fashion. It questions and plays with the popularity of these products, but also wonders how is a seemingly trivial phenomenon like this reflecting back our relationship to nature in present times.
What drives us to wrap up in the skin (imitation) of exotic and often dangerous animal species we maybe never even saw or know nothing or very little about? What kind of instincts and passions do certain animal patterns evoke in us? Can it be that this is a new way we humans show solidarity and belonging to the animal world in hope that we will find our forgotten roots in nature, we so much alienated from in the past century? Or, is it yet another way of endless human tendency to tame, conquer and appropriate nature, until all what is left is a cheap synthetic imitation of it….
* No animals were harmed for the purposes of this project.
The artist is present at the opening!
Opening: 13 December 2018 from 19h
Exhibition: 14 December 2018 - 11 January 2019.
Artist talk and Finissage - 11 January from 19h
About the artist:
Milica Mrvić is a photographer and art director from Belgrade (Serbia). She studied on the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, and graduated in Photography, at the Applied Graphics Department. She is currently based in Budapest (Hungary).
Her work is a combination of rich colors, witt and quirkiness, inspired by the everyday life, popular culture, but also childhood imprints and memories.