Maja Djordjevic / Everybody Wants To Be Somebody
Curated by Peter Bencze
14 December 2019 - 29 March 2020
ENA Viewing Space
Budafoki út 10/c
Budapest, 1111
Everybody needs somebody
Everybody needs somebody to love (someone to love)
Sweetheart to miss (sweetheart to miss)
Sugar to kiss (sugar to kiss)
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you In the morning
I need you you you When my soul's on fire
Everybody needs somebody to love (someone to love)
Sweetheart to miss (sweetheart to miss)
Sugar to kiss (sugar to kiss)
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you In the morning
I need you you you When my soul's on fire
Sometimes I feel
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you
Sometimes I feel
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you
You know people when you do find that somebody
Hold that woman, hold that man
Love him, hold him,
squeeze her, please her, hold her
Squeeze and please that person,
give 'em all your love
Signify your feelings with every gentle caress
Because it's so important to have that special somebody
to hold, kiss, miss, squeeze and please
Hold that woman, hold that man
Love him, hold him,
squeeze her, please her, hold her
Squeeze and please that person,
give 'em all your love
Signify your feelings with every gentle caress
Because it's so important to have that special somebody
to hold, kiss, miss, squeeze and please
"Everybody Wants To Be Somebody" is
the inaugural solo exhibition of the London-based Serbian artist in
Hungary.
Maja Djordjevic's multi-disciplinary works are
reminiscent of computer doodles, but in reality are produced with meticulous
craft using traditional oil and enamel, resulting in a unique and seductively
tactile series of pixelated illusions.
Djordjevic paints rectilinear shapes by hand, sketched
out in an early kind of MacPaint program, where squares of color are so large
as to prevent too much detail. The central figure appearing throughout the
narrative of the works is a girl character, mostly seen simply being herself,
portrayed in various tragical and yet comical situations that could be
half-fictional half-autobiographical, but above all very relatable. The girl is
often depicted naked, her gender only suggested through a small black vertical
line as her vagina, touching on art historical representations of the nude and
narratives of the male and the female gaze from a position of tongue-in-cheek
feminine power. Her main color pallet enhances the playfulness of her works
with various bright pinks and blues coloring her protagonists no matter the context
they’re in. Djordjevic's practice is a humorous yet unapologetically direct
exploration of contemporary society's obsession with "relatability"
and identity through collective Internet culture and our yearning
to become a part of something, to be Somebody.
Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist
and Everybody Needs Art
Photo credit: Aron Weber
Instagram:
@majadjordjevic_ @everybodyneedsart @enaviewingspace