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Viktor Kiss
Sculptor and the founder of the Dev9t festival
Former acting director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Once a carpenter friend of mine brought me a truck full of doors from an old house, because he was replacing them all. He knew I would use them somehow. They were worn out and at the same time filled with life. Each of them raised questions and opened the imagination: "who are the people who used them, what is behind them, and what came before". I had the same feeling when I found myself in front of Alexandra's paintings. For me, they represented passages that, when you use them, you feel that they are inevitably using you, in order to physically draw you into the world that Alexandra intended for you. That's how I got attached to the golden loose threads, but also the strictly set tight boundaries. With some, I found myself in the middle of an oasis surrounded by huge bare mountains. Some doors took me back to a kind of loneliness, to bare mountains without an oasis. Left like that in the middle of nowhere, it's just a reminder that wealth and luxury are within you, not around you. In some, you are faced with towering menacing rocks, full of authority, which are just waiting for you for serious intimate questioning. Each painting is a new door, for me as a new experience of space and ideas that reside in the soul and thoughts, maybe even the memories of the artist.
Alexandra's paintings physically allow you, as an observer, to actively participate with the artist in the rapture of research, but also in inspiration. By opening each door to the "image" individually, it ceases to be information and becomes an experience. Behind some of them, you can feel a rush of moist sea air at the moment when the mountains are tucked into the ocean. Her paintings are intimate. It was as if they happened from the memory of a long silent but pleasant look into the distance. Those places are dear to her, but now they become to you too.
With this exhibition, Aleksandra opened only a few doors of the huge castle that she carries inside her.
