Brankiça Zilović

Brankiça Zilović is a graduate of ENSBA, where she attended the workshops of Vladimir Veličković and Dominique Gauthier. Embroidery and the world of textiles have gradually imposed themselves on her practice to become her exclusive mediums. Her work is marked by the history of Serbia and the broader issues of migration and borders, blending individual and collective biography.

She sews, weaves and embroiders, creating installations, compositions and drawings. Oblivion, loss and degeneration, the driving forces behind Brankiça's work, are nothing less than calls for new beginnings. Through repetition and the obsessive nature of her works, time dilates and takes on an almost expiatory dimension.

In 2023, Private Choice presents Brankiça Zilović at the "Pour l'amour de l'Antique " exhibition designed by Olivier Morand in Cavaillon, in Agar's Puyricard mansion. Greek mythology appears in Brankiça's work as a new way of questioning our memory, our values and our relationship with the world. By choosing the figures of Venus, Athena and Janus, the artist reveals the classical attributes of the gods and their unifying power in a colourful weave.

His Retour à Ithaque series weaves a powerful narrative, part of his drive to map fragile, shaken territories. The voyage of Ulysses, eminently initiatory, survives in our collective imagination as an exploration strewn with pitfalls and conducive to realizations. Through her embroidery on paperbacks, the artist recounts the missions that belong to us today, relating to environmental emergencies. On her open books, the silhouettes of different countries are outlined in textile. Like islands belonging to the same archipelago, their identical format reflects their mutual destiny, inevitably linked to that of the Arctic Circle.