Maja Kolarić & Christopher Yggdre, Brankica Žilović. Drifting Worlds, Paris, Lord Byron Editions, 2024
1st edition Edition of 320 numbered copies Hardcover, 23 x 27.5 cm, 240 pages Trilingual edition: French, English, Serbian Translated into English by John Barrett Translated into Serbian by Milena Milanović ISBN: 978-2-491901-66-0
This book is the first monograph of the artist tracing the journey of her last twenty years of creation. It includes a foreword by Christopher Yggdre and an interview with Maja Kolarić, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Christopher Yggdre particularly addresses in the work of the Franco-Serbian artist her approach to cartography in its cathartic dimension.
"The fascination exerted on us by surveys and maps may never have been as powerful as in these troubled times. Everything can be mapped, our real or imaginary territories, our material or immaterial places, our hindrances or our desires, space or time, the infinitely large or the infinitely small. Today, some artists of the map can be artists of connection, of care, of tenderness, dare I say. Brankica Žilović is one of those map artists who are also artists of connection. She has managed, in a gesture of rare coherence, to link the imagination of the map to that of interlacing. She weaves relational maps that are as sensitive maps. She invites us not to master the territory but to a fine exploration of the potentialities, relations, and links specific to reality. The map is no longer fixed, it trembles and vibrates." (Christopher Yggdre)
