Nada Prlja

In search of Black Communism

Heavily influenced by the Black Wave or dissident Yugoslav cinema of her
childhood, artist Nada Prlja considers its unique balancing act between
iconoclasm and idealism, individualism and communism to be exemplary.

In the presentation on TUESDAY 9TH MARCH at 6.30pm, Prlja will talk about
the cultural context of communist Yugoslavia and its mutation into a
consumer culture, a shift that her artwork pivots on.

"Nada Prlja was born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia in 1971, and
graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. She has
lived and worked in London since she moved here in 1999. She was one of
the few artists to graduate with MPhil degree in Royal College of Art in
2002 who was clearly political in her intent. Her work has
progressed with a fearless determination since then.

Her work deals with complex situations of inequality within different
political, economic or religious formations. Working across media
(video, installation and a wide range of material including flags and
neon) her artistic work is site-specific, as well as ideas rather than
media driven.

Prlja claims to come from a ‘Red Bourgeois’ background but would like to
live now in ‘black communism’."
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