Author Description

In her large format paintings Maja Vukoje addresses discursive issues such as postcolonialism, gender, and popular culture. Based on her own migration experience, Maja Vukoje is particularly interested in syncretic cultural phenomena, which she investigated on research trips, such as to the Caribbean Carnival in Tobago. These presentations of collective rituals, gestures, and moments of transformation inhabit stage-like suburban scenes from New Belgrade. Different cultural contexts blend in her paintings, where the artist is always seeking an archetypal version of individual experiences.--Gallery website.