VALENTINA SAVIC

“When I was a child, my favorite game was to make things out of the mud. At that time I lived in a new communist block of flats, which was surrounded by marsh and where
I spent most of my time playing. The muddy area around the strict and rigid social-realistic architecture in a way gave the block of flats an essential element of organic, changeable, and untamed. Much later the mud pies had become the sculptures, and clay had become the primal material of my artistic expression. My sculptures are a
response and reaction to the imposed identities, systems and structures, they question what is offered, imposed and allowed to the men nowadays, in terms of socially acceptable norms. "