Katarina Abović
In a world that feels increasingly saturated by crisis and conflict, I often notice how quickly the constant flow of negative news can lead to overwhelm — and to a quiet sense of powerlessness. For me, peace is not an abstract ideal or a distant political condition only; it begins as an inner, lived experience: a return to breath, to clarity, to presence. These two works come from that need to respond constructively — to search for an image that doesn’t deny reality, but offers another perspective: a space of possibility.
Both paintings depict a fragmented, geometric figure in tones of blue and warm earth, as if the self is made of shifting pieces — memory, vulnerability, resilience — held together in a delicate balance. Peace, in this sense, is not perfection or stillness. It is the moment when the fragments stop fighting each other and begin to align; when the inside becomes spacious enough to hold complexity without collapsing into fear.
Katarina Abović, Chilean painter (b. 1988), blends Croatian-Montenegrin heritage with global residencies in Bali, Croatia, Vietnam, and Honduras. Her Dynamic Painting explores body as energy, human existence, and transformation—inspired by her painter grandmother and life experience — through layered acrylics, oils, and geometric interiors.
“Freedom Within I / II”, 2026, acrylic on canvas (100x150cm each)