Dragana Jurisic - My own unknown
11/09/2017 - 01/07/2018
Centre culturel irlandais
5, rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris
In 1954, a farm girl disappeared from a village in rural Yugoslavia. Rumour has it that she fled to Paris where she led a double life as a spy until her death in the 1980s. A ravishing woman, she was Dragana Jurisic's aunt. Recovered from her few personal belongings, was a colour photograph in which she is seen striking an unsettling pose hypnotic yet ambiguously charming. Almost a century earlier, another mysterious beauty in Paris, L'Inconnue de la Seine, was immortalized in a death mask and celebrated by artists and writers alike. These two female characters together with the artist herself form the protagonists of Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurii?'s exhibition My Own Unknown. Photography and texts create a multi-voiced narrative addressing personal, family history and the desire for freedom with the entailing complexities of exile, politics and betrayal.
Centre culturel irlandais
5, rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris
In 1954, a farm girl disappeared from a village in rural Yugoslavia. Rumour has it that she fled to Paris where she led a double life as a spy until her death in the 1980s. A ravishing woman, she was Dragana Jurisic's aunt. Recovered from her few personal belongings, was a colour photograph in which she is seen striking an unsettling pose hypnotic yet ambiguously charming. Almost a century earlier, another mysterious beauty in Paris, L'Inconnue de la Seine, was immortalized in a death mask and celebrated by artists and writers alike. These two female characters together with the artist herself form the protagonists of Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurii?'s exhibition My Own Unknown. Photography and texts create a multi-voiced narrative addressing personal, family history and the desire for freedom with the entailing complexities of exile, politics and betrayal.