New World_Reflector Gallery_2022

New World (Reflector Gallery, Užice, 2022) emerged from a process of radical reduction, where I stripped away representational form and allowed color to become the primary constructive element. In this gesture, form ceased to be descriptive and began to materialize through chromatic relations alone.

Visually, these fields of color recalled fragments of maps—territories that, while abstract, evoked the language of geopolitical borders. This cartographic resemblance introduced a political dimension: each field could be seen as both painterly abstraction and a speculative geography, shaped by the instability of boundaries and the redrawing of territories. The project thus positioned abstraction not as a retreat from reality, but as a way to reflect on the forces—political, social, ecological—that construct and fracture our shared world.

Conceptually, the work drew from the immersive expanses of Color Field painting and the utopian ideals of Russian Constructivism, particularly its vision of rebuilding society through new visual languages. By placing these two paradigms into dialogue, New World collapsed the divide between aesthetic autonomy and ideological function, suggesting that visual form is always entangled with systems of power and imagination.

Emerging in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition became a meditation on reconstruction—of images, of structures, and of worlds in flux. In its final stage, the project extended into 3D animation, pushing these chromatic territories into digital space and exploring the tension between stasis and transformation, materiality and immateriality.

New World is therefore not only about abstraction, but about the possibility of new territories—speculative spaces where painting, politics, and ecology converge.