Teodora Micic (RS)
Text written by GHA
Teodora Micic, a Serbian artist, explores the fragile boundary between consciousness and subconsciousness with her impressive woodcut portraits. Visually, her prints use the expressive power of contrast. The interplay of light and shadow enhances the psychological impact of each face, while the tactile grain of the woodcut technique underscores the vulnerability of human presence. She works primarily with a single supporting color, creating close-ups that draw the viewer into an intimate but unsettling encounter with her subjects.
The immediacy of her motifs lies in their duality: the figures appear introverted, withdrawn, yet their presence radiates an intensity that defies silence.
Micic’s practice focuses on the dynamics of memory, dreams, and forgetting. Her dark portraits often depict sleeping figures whose fading facial features reflect the gradual erasure of personal memories. For Micic, forgetting is not a passive loss, but an active, creative gesture—an act of self-editing, dismantling, and reshaping one’s own history. Through this lens, her works invite viewers to reflect on how memory constructs identity and how erasure can become a form of liberation. By combining raw materiality with poetic metaphors, Micic creates work that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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