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in her work slavna takes the abandoned and reworks reprints, and re-sews, bricolaging and searching the proximity of the cloth and the flesh, commenting on the performance of gender, (un) belonging, garment as a subversive object, allowing it to exist beyond the body, at times sculpting the body into the garment itself.
many of her works have been exhibited in galleries and museums and also in theater productions and films in collaboration with directors, composers, and choreographers.
"three horned animals" Installation, featured in the exhibition "lockdown : 8 künstlerische positionen" curated by Jutta Oberhuber
frauen museum wiesbaden, 2021
the exhibition features 8 women artists and their artistic practice during the first Covid lockdown.
the installation explores my relationship with my grandmother with whom I shared these months and large chunks of my life. The work documents the intimacy of two bodies intertwined in growing/aging processes and the metamorphoses of care.
1. digital print on photo paper, gold foil, dress 90x75cm
2 & 3 digital print on photo paper 28x18 cm
4. digital print on photo paper 37x 25 cm
5. undershirt with golden foil / I was but a little surprised I have three horned animals living in me 40 x 27 cm
grandmother as an expanded sculpture in a public space
Series of photographs of my grandmother in the gallery perpetuel in Frankfurt wearing the archive pieces of my 'my demigod' collections.
exploring hyper-femininity and age, i record my grandmother's gaze through the camera lens - the closeness she welcomed throughout decades.
digital collages on photo paper, 2019
150x120 cm
an object of desire 001, 2021
Leather, glitter foil, acrylic paint
nspired by the american musical company 70s leather jackets
the object expands into the endless inevitable.
Featured in the film 'get lost' by daniela amavia
net werables exploring the concept between clothing, shelter and body in collaboration with tomoko mukayama for her piece "la mode" , 2015
an homage to prince, 2021
leather, glitter foil
dragon illustration by vukadin filipovic
featured in the film 'get lost by daniela amavia
seven pieces built from deconstructed antique silk meisen kimonos created for the performance concert 'crawling on the catwalk' by the dutch american composer david dramm, performed by philharmonie zuidnederland and the PDC club , 2018
kimono , with its definition "a thing to wear" is a garment constructed of completely flat fabric with no seams. op art gives multidimensionality to a flat surface. the pieces explore the space created by flat forms and patterns.
photography: milica kolaric model: tamara pjevic
'la mode" directed by tomoko mukayiama
Taichung Opera House, Taiwan
Spiral Hall, Tokyo Japan
collaboration with tomako mukayama seeking the definition of fashion. mukayiama was keen to create a piece about fashion without actual clothes. inspired by the flatness of the digital medium and the steady loss of materiality of dress, slavna created the concept of the fashion XXL , an over sized wearable copy of the chosen design classic. these 'fashions' that have lost their third dimension were digitally printed on soft foam, revealing the dancers' backside, playfully questioning the concept of remixing, appropriation, and disobedience that is all but a fashion essential.
The work has been featured in the book 'Konsumfashionista' edited by Dr. Brigit Richard
published by Fink Verlag.
picture 1 (above) models wearing masks depicting vivienne westwood and martin margiela and their applicable labels.
picture 2 model wearing fashion print XXL of hand embroidered and embellished leather ensemble, alessandro michele for gucci SS 2015
picture 3: model wearing fashion print XXL of croco leather jacket, azzedine alaia SF 2003
picture 4: model wearing fashion XXL print of silk taffeta wave pattern print dress, christian dior 1956
picture 1 (above) models wearing masks depicting vivienne westwood and martin margiela and their applicable labels.
picture 2 model wearing fashion print XXL of hand embroidered and embellished leather ensemble, alessandro michele for gucci SS 2015
picture 3: model wearing fashion print XXL of croco leather jacket, azzedine alaia SF 2003
picture 4: model wearing fashion XXL print of silk taffeta wave pattern print dress, christian dior 1956
picture 4: model wearing fashion XXL print of tea dress, charles fredric worth ca. 1895
picture 5: model wearing fashion XXL print of silk jersey coat with gold thread and silk embroidery and applied decoration in silk, featuring an illustration by jean cocteau, elsa schiaparelli 1937
picture 6: classic mini flap lam skin quilted leather bag, Chanel ca. 2004 /5
picture 7: rouge pur couture in le rouge YSL
direction: tomoko mukayiama
choreography: dunja jocic
set design: toyo ito
light design: tanja ruhl
composer: yannis kyriakides
spellbound contemporary ballet rome
technical direction and photo: yutaka endo
metropolitan opera house, taichung, taiwan
spiral hall tokyo japan , 2016
silk spine wearable sculpture edition of 5, right on artist ewa schwab in front of her painting, photographed by gaby gerster, 2019
'deus' the jaket / aka jacket for john
installation view
part of the group show 'cordially' curated by antonia lia orsi at the gallery perpetuel, frankfurt, germany 2020
photography milica kolaric
dunja jocic falling in 'deus'
shot at DIM
"phobia"
choreography club guy and roni, en knapp, slagwerk den haag 2015
music: hugo morales
light design: will frikenn
set desigh ascon de nijs
photography: andrej lames and fevzer ales
in "phobia" a piece directed and choreographed by guy weizman and roni haver slavna created enclosed body sculptures, cocoon like shells of the actors corporalities. the pieces were inspired by the sense of extreme fear where one's body looses its firmness giving a way to a palpable mass of atoms, colors and energy.
"skinny" is a series of wearable objects where slavna developed an idea of augmenting the body with a body of another, she deconstructed digitally printed bodies found on internet or recreated replicas of the actors as a doppelgänger of sort.
picture 1, 3 and 4 model (tijana prendovic and bojana mitrovic) wearing a "body dress" created for "la mode" by tomoko mukayama 2016,
picture 2. "body skin body" 2018
picture 5 "" roni doll" for "happiness" by club guy and roni 2016
"hairys" are several outfits made out of fake hair made for the piece "naked lunch" directed and choreographed by guy weizman and roni haver based on the novel by william burroughs. nightmarish, synthetically organic and sexual the pieces blur the squeamish line between nudity and nakedness.
"naked lunch"directed and choreographed by guy weizman and roni haver
club guy and roni, vocaal lab, slagwerk den haag
composer:yannis kyriakides
set design: ascon de naijs
light design: will frikken
photography: andreas etter
theater de challiot, paris france 2016
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masks created for the piece terra incognita by dunja jocic. inspired by nabokov's story of the same name, were created to impel an uncertainty between hallucinogenic visions and ritual adoration.
"terra incognita"
choreography and direction dunja jocic
composer hugo morales
light design pavla beranová
photography jelena jankovic , 2016
models: shay petrush and dunja jocic
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