Sofija Vojinović ”Dreaming”
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Sofija Vojinović, born in 1991 in Čačak. She completed her master’s and basic academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting. She is a member of ULUS.
She has participated in several group exhibitions and has realized four solo exhibitions in Užice, Belgrade, Čačak and Kragujevac. Since 2018, she has been starting her exhibition career with drawings in which she explores the shadow. This project has resulted in the cycles Presupposition, Home in the Home, Shadows of Home and the latest Dreaming.
The shadow in Jung’s psychology of personality has a deep meaning and the term shadow refers to a part of identity that the conscious self does not understand or accept. Psychic traits that the human ego does not recognize as its own are instead repressed into the unconscious, where an inferior, dark part of the personality called the shadow is formed. What is even more interesting is that the shadow is an inexhaustible source of creativity and often superb art. Shadows are also mentioned in fairy tales and children’s stories, let’s remember Peter Pan, the eternal boy who chases his mischievous shadow. The shadow can appear in visions, memories and dreams. That is why the artist turned her shadows into memories that, although faded, have remained permanently recorded in special folders and memory cards. A shadow on the wall, a shadow on the floor, a shadow from a window with outlined traces of a curtain through which, as the wind blows, patterns are created on the wall, outlines of silhouettes, geometric and amorphous forms like the shadows of a home. This interweaving represents the memory of childhood, events from the past, beautiful unforgettable moments experienced in youth, in life, but also repressed difficult, emotional moments that occasionally surface.
The latest cycle of Daydreaming builds on previous cycles, shadows revive memories, and new fragments remain framed within the drawing, frozen in time. Daydreaming is a characteristic of artists, poets, inventors, philosophers. Many scientific achievements, imaginary landscapes of visual artists, beautiful symphonies of composers can arise from daydreaming. They have the power to materialize their daydreaming and transform it into a painting, music, or song.
Shadows on walls, drawings, and canvases by Sofija Vojinović represent geometric compositions with a pronounced perspective, painted in gray layers of transparent paint with visible overlapping of crossed lines and surfaces. Discreetly presented combinations of vertical and horizontal surfaces, bordered by a shadow through which light passes, create a certain contrast that is very important in fine art. This contrast enhances the excitement of the composition. However, the artist places special emphasis on the shadow, which is dominant in the entire composition. Judge for yourself whether visualization is the only important thing or the artist is just playing around in order to draw our attention to listening to our Self a little better, and accepting it as it is without any restraints or complexes.