30TH ANNUAL
Tallahassee International
Maja Ruznic
“This new body of work offers
glimpses into uncanny yet
familiar landscapes and evokes
feelings of discomfort and
displacement. The figures, whose
gender is ambiguous, are alive
and dead at once—they are
‘avet’—the Bosnian word for an
apparition. I seek to bring out the
fragility from within the subject,
not to presume superiority,
but to celebrate the intimacy
possible when we bare our traumas, both large and small. I allow
my paintings to tell me how
to make them—the paint bleeds
and washes over the figure,
gently unmasking psychological
deformations. The paintings
are sketch-like and complete at
once and evoke the feeling
of having woken from a dream,
recalling a few, small details while
the rest recedes into obscurity. ”
—M. Ruznic
Maja Ruznic,
Trophies Were Made and the
Message Did Not Matter.
The Joy Was Already In Their Bones.,
ink and gouache on paper,
31 x 42 inches.
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