Premio Combat Prize

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION>
Mesmerised by the beauty of the famous late mediaeval six-part tapestry series – The Lady and the Unicorn which is on display at the Cluny Museum in Paris, Nena Skoko Snezana revisits her past love experiences using the code of their symbolic meanings. They depict five senses – smell, taste, hearing, sight and touch, as well as the Lady’s “sole desire” – the desire to get to know the truth of love.
Relying on the documentary archive (letters kept, postcards, photographs…), Nena translates love messages and declarations onto textile by way of embroidery, printing, tufting, weaving, patchworking, hand papermaking, plant braiding, chocolate pouring…The sixth installation, My Sole Desire, is the sublimation of Nena’s love experience.
BIOGRAPHY>
- Born in Zemun, Serbia on 13. 06. 1960.
- Graduated in 1984 at Faculty of Applied Arts Belgrade, at textile department
- Made MA diploma at Faculty of Applied Arts Belgrade (1998), at textile department
- 2005, as a member of Art Association ULUPUDS got a rank as honour artist
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
- 1999. Dieu Donne Peppermill, New York (Arts Link residency program, USA)
- 1994. Goldsmiths` College, London, England (guest student at postgraduate program mentoring by professor Janis Jefferies)
- 1991-1993 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Poznan, Poland (grant of Ministry of Culture of Poland for postgraduate research, studio of Magdalena Abakanovicz, professor Anna Goebel),
- 1989. Academy of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland (postgraduate research mentoring by professor Kirsti Rantanen, exchanging program of Ministry of Cuilture of Yugoslavia,)
RECOGNITION:
- 2017 work in collection of the Museum of Applied Art of Serbia, video- work ” The Lady and the Unicorn- My Story” – ” My Sole Desire“
- 2014 work in collection of the Museum of Applied Art of Serbia, video- instalation „Then is Now/Nekad je sad“
- 2009 work in collection of the Museum of Applied Art of Serbia, (“E-mail handkerchief/ E-mail maramice”)
- 2008 award of ULUPUDS for conceptual approach in Contemporary textile art, exhibition TISO 08, Museum “25th of May”, Belgrades
- 2007 work in collection of Contemporary Serbian Art Works of TELENOR Company
(hand-made paper, part of the work “Statistic data of the wardrobe of an American and a Serbian girl”)
- 2004 Textile work “Ants” in the collection of Textile museum, Angers, France
- 2001 Award of the Fond of Art ‘Ivan Kaljevic’ and the Gold medal of the 48th the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade and prize on Subotica LOW FI Video Festival for animation “Everything stopped just children keep growing up” in production of Punctum for art experiment
- 1999 Grant of Arts link Foundation, New York
- 1994 /1999 ULUPUDS Award for annual work in textile art
- 1994 Medallion on Tapestry Biennial, Gallery “Dom JNA”, Belgrade
- 1984 - Award of the Fond of “Branko Šotra”,
- Award of the Fond of “Iva Vrinjanin”,
- Award of the Fond of “Aleksandar Tomasević”