Pavle Golijanin copy

PAVLE GOLIJANIN

Konstrukcija majstorluka, in collaboration with my father, pipes, glass wool,inox sheet, high temperature paint,bakelite, screws, nozzles, thermocouples, gas valves,pop rivets, 96cm x 51cm x 76,5 cm, stand 94cm x85cm x 64 cm, 2023

The Architecture of Mastery is a series of collaborative works created in my father’s workshop. Over the course of a few months, we built one grill and three gas ovens for burek, including this oven, which was later exhibited in a gallery. This collaboration explores the transmission of knowledge, the learning of practical skills, communication between father and son, spontaneity, and behavioral principles within the workshop space. Besides the collaboratively made oven—which is both functional and artistic—other works emerged during the process: documentary forms, photographs, painted welding glass, equipment, and sculptures created through the accumulation of metal shavings. The entire work process was recorded, resulting in a video essay. In this way, the tradition of craftsmanship is celebrated. My father appreciated this validation through the gallery exhibition; until then, the main form of validation had been purely practical—whether an oven baked well or not.

Culinary intervention Making of Keške in collaboration with my grandmother 𝑅𝒶𝒹𝓂𝒾𝓁𝒶

Ingredients:

2 kg wheat

Whole chicken

Water

Salt

Tools:

Found grenade shell

Modified crowbar

Keške1, found Howitzer brass shell, metal wedge, self-published cookbook, 1992–2024

UNESCO https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ceremonial-kekek-tradition-00388

My father transformed a grenade shell into a mortar for cracking wheat, using it to prepare the Christmas dish Keške. This act of repurposing reflects cultural transfer, showing how emerging situations, such as war, shape and adapt tradition, creating a new dynamic of survival and community.

Ꭰꮎꮇꭺćꮖ ꮶꮎꮮꭺčꮖ, print on linen, 129 × 97 cm, 1998/2024

This series draws directly from memories, situations, dialogues, and, materially, from the drawings I made as a child in the cookbooks my mother collected. These cookbooks served as both a guide in learning to draw and a means of communication between us. It was a dynamic akin to that of an artist and a critic—was she collecting cookbooks, or was she collecting my drawings? They became an open field for practice, alteration, and reinterpretation, shaping my early visual language and the way I engaged with images and text.

Microarchives, metal, 15 × 22 × 5.5 cm, 2014–ongoing