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David Maljkovic, In the Pictorial Code, Quetzal Art Centre, 2023. Photo: Hrvoje Franjić
In your studio, a collage of postcards and images is neatly pinned next to your paintings. Chromatic charts, with the chosen colour palette for each painting, are methodically classified by date and hanging on the walls. Can you tell us a little bit about your studio life and what this space means to you?
We understand the studio to be a symbolic place of production and experimentation, but it is also, in some way, part of the artist’s daily geometry. In these routines, rituals of sorts, the studio is not only a physical but also a mental space within an entire corpus of activities. Different spaces are condensed in the studio; the space of your work, the space that surrounds it, as well as cultural and even geopolitical space.
You are a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice varies from film, collage, sculpture, to painting. Do you have a preferred medium you like to experiment and play with in the studio?
The studio articulates the processes within your work and is a generator of sorts, that facilitates the creation of new experiences. These processes reflect various relationships and artistic problems, and one has to reach for different tools and media to solve them. Regardless of the medium itself, however, the studio is certainly one of the testing grounds for their processing.
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