nataliapavlovic

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Carnivxxlesque, 2025, video work, 2 min 18 s

*installation view; included in Slade Fine Art Media show 'bracing should 'always lean into opening'' at Annex, the Koppel Project, London, UK

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Carnivxxlesque, 2025, video work, 2 min 18 s

Carnivxxlesque is a video work consisting of a series of scenes shot on 16 mm film, combined with digital footage. It is inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on carnivalesque as subversive means of temporarily overthrowing societal hierarchies and rules. 

In this work, the concept and aesthetics of carnival are used to explore the tension between the desire to reveal the true self (and its wrongdoings) and the urge to shield it, exposing oneself while remaining behind the facade of a playing the fool. The game, however, fails as the revealed appears mundane and the carnivalesque, rather than providing relief, evokes danse macabre.

(special thanks to Nicolas Wäckers for technical support)

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Plain things, 2025, limited edition of booklets, pink Risograph print & handwritten text, 11 x 7 cm

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Plain things, 2025

*installation view; 2nd crit at the Slade School of Art; series of Polaroid photographs on a plywood shelf

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Plain things, 2025, series of Polaroid photographs (selected works), 10.7 x 8.8 cm each

Plain things is a series of Polaroid photographs inspired by the Freudian concept of ‘the lost object’, exploring the attachment to and fetishization of objects that, on a subconscious level, serve as substitutes for particular feelings or memories - particularly those of affection and care. Plain things, in this way, works as an attempt to archive emotionally charged objects and scenes from my childhood.

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Sleeping bags, 2025, video work (wip)

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Band-aid nest in a tent, 2024, installation (tent, plasters, projector, camera), 200 x 120 x 100 cm 

Band-aid nest in a tent is an installation with a live video stream of an empty nest made out of plasters, placed inside a tent and projected onto one of its walls. It is part of ongoing series titled Shelters, free-assemblage works that explore safe spaces, their inherent permeability, and their (in)ability to protect. This particular piece examines the blurred boundaries between exposure, surveillance, protection, and care.

*installation view; 1st crit at the Slade School of Art

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Making of (the first) Band-aid nest, 2024, video work, 4 min 40 s

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Guards off guard, 2024, gif

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Nest, 2024, installation (duvet, twigs, various belts and shoelaces, metal frames, stool, kitchen timer egg, eggs), approx. 1.5 x 1.5 m

Nest as protective yet open; as thorny yet soft; as a cot; as a womb; as mum; as a place to come back; as allowing for unity of the inner and outer; as denying the outside; as defying the exclusion.

Looking at a nest as a prototype of a safe space, protective yet not exclusionary. Recognising it as means of perverting the strict division between the outside and the inside, allowing for their encounter, their union. Nest as an ideal form but here unable to escape its settings nor my weaknesses. The inability to fully escape, to fully hide, to fully protect - all making the nest soaking in the anxiety and losing its purpose.

*outcome of the Transformative Futures residency at the Camden Art Centre, London, UK

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Cowboy from Nemsova (part of Born for the West series), 2024, series of Polaroid photographs (selected works), 10.7 x 8.8 cm each 

Returning back home in two stages, first to Prague (Czech Republic) to perform Western patriotism in the middle of the communist housing estate complex: provoking with the UK and US flags, using a french fry as a middle finger to f*ck the old socialist housing, proudly displaying the EU logo on a T-shirt.

Then returning to my hometown, Nemsova (Slovakia), to go through my old gems, from first Converse to Disney bra, brought from the trips to the West and try to fit in them as I try to fit in the UK now. 

*showed together with some journal writings as a part of an installation for Transformative Futures takeover at Camden Art Centre, London, UK

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Immigrant's sandwich, 2023, free assemblage (passport, EU matches, two paracetamols, one plaster), 10.5 x 10.5 cm

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Immigrant's sandwich, 2023

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Bunnie vi, 2024, twin photographs

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Bunnie v, 2024 (knuckle bite)

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Bunnie iiii, 2024 (double bite)

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Bunnie iii, 2023, video work, 3 min 30 s

Bunnie is a series of works dealing with self-parenting, it touches upon one's physical relationship with themselves in response to their sore spots and fears.