Deindustrialization, economic decline, population loss, and urban decay
BOKIKI is a digital art collaboration of Irena Vujanovic and Bojan Jovanovic. Both of the artists come from the same city of Belgrade and left at the same time following the breakup of Yugoslavia; Irena moved to Chicago, while Bojan left for Brazil and later moved to New York. While Irena’s career was at the Northwestern University connected with science and in parallel with art, Bojan on the other hand became involved with international caricature connected with New York Times. By an accident or perhaps fate two of them got reunited in Chicago in 2015, and soon after “Bokiki Art” was born. The experience of two artists working together and caching the mutual inspirational momentum from the start is helping them to be more assured of the consistency of the final result.
Exhibits:
2015 Creation of Bokiki Art Bokiki Art studio, Evanston, IL, USA
2016 Salon D’Automne, Paris, France 2016 Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA
2017 Solo exhibition, Pop-up space gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2018 Salon D’ Autmne, Paris, France
2019 Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Anima Mundi, Itsliquid,, Venice, 58 Biennale, Italy
2019 Salon D’ Automne, Paris, France
2020 Itsliquid, London, England