Spatial installation Dreaming

BOJANA PAŠAJLIC (1990, Kragujevac) completed her basic academic studies at the Department of Applied Art, Department of Interior Architecture, Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac (2009-2013). She completed her master's studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, majoring in Interior and Furniture Design, in 2014, earning the title of Master Designer. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad in 2020. having obtained the title of Doctor of Science. From 2020 she is employed at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac, at the Department of Interior Architecture, as an assistant professor. During the past years, she participated in numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad. Through artistic and scientific research, the framework of its activity is the history of 20th century architecture, architectural and cultural heritage - its preservation, protection and reactivation, especially in the area of ​​the city of Kragujevac. She is engaged in independent practice in the field of architecture and interior design.

The art installation "Dreaming" explores the poetics of memory through elements and materials contextualized through tradition, thereby questioning personal and inherited understandings about the preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The choice of space for the realization of an artistic installation is important for the author for several reasons, primarily as a place of daily residence, regeneration and personal self-examination. On the other hand, the material from which the art installation was made, fallen branches of a willow tree, was collected right within the memorial park, every day, for a few months. Therefore, the idea was to return it as a discarded material to the space of the memorial park in a new form, which represents a peculiar process of recycling and circulation of materials in nature. The size of the art installation varies in relation to the position of the elements in the space of 180-220 cm.