SOMA
2026–ongoing
SOMA investigates the presence of the body beyond its visible form through material, gesture, trace, and space, engaging with memory, displacement, and the transformation of lived experience.
SOMA: Archive of Breath
SOMA: Archive of Breath (2026) is a suspended textile and floor installation that explores the body as a site of memory, vulnerability, and transformation. Rather than depicting the human figure, the work evokes bodily presence through material, gesture, and spatial relationships.
Constructed from fragments of traditional Bosnian textiles, hand-spun wool, raw wool, soil, and pigment, the installation brings together materials marked by use, inheritance, and displacement. Hand stitching becomes an act of both rupture and repair, while the suspended textile and earth beneath it establish a dialogue between fragility, gravity, and belonging.
Installation Views
Fragments of SOMA I–IV
2026 · Mixed-media assemblage on canvas · 12 × 12 in each
Extending the material investigations of SOMA: Archive of Breath, these four works bring fragments of textiles, hand stitching, soil, and pigment onto canvas. Through layering, rupture, and reassembly, they explore how material can carry traces of memory and transformation.
Pneuma / Radix Animae
Early Paintings from the SOMA Series
These early works explore bodily presence through gesture, earth, and trace. In Pneuma, black acrylic mixed with soil records spontaneous, physical movement, evoking breath and the vital force that animates matter.
In Radix Animae (Root of the Soul), soil, black acrylic, white traces, and fragments of Bosančica, a historical Bosnian script, form a layered surface through which memories of war, displacement, and loss emerge.
Together, the paintings establish the material and conceptual foundations of SOMA, where the body is not depicted but experienced through the traces it leaves behind.
Radix Animae, 2026
Acrylic and soil on canvas, 48 × 36 in.
Pneuma, 2026
Acrylic and soil on canvas, 48 × 36 in.