Maja Đorđević

In July 2017, the Microsoft Company announced that the popular drawing software Paint would no longer be a default part of the Windows operating system package. Introduced with the first version of Windows in 1985, after thirty-two years MS Paint went down to history as one of the most used programs for PC users.

Maja Đorđević belongs to the generation of people who mourn over the death of Paint since playing in this software was an indispensable part of her childhood. As she got her early, formative drawing experience in the white window of this program, it continued to be an inseparable part of her artistic process in which she uses Paint as an initial platform for recording her doodle sketches and drawings; on the basis of which she realizes paintings and objects of large format.

By translating the image from the digital into the tactile, analogue space of the framed painted canvas, she does not refer to the technical innovation brought about by digital production of paintings, but rather – on the contrary – insists on the logic of the production of paintings as a space filled with meaning and, at the same time, manipulating meanings in a way through which it faces and falls short of the expectations and habits we have regarding painting as a historically based discipline.
Ana Bogdanović

Maja Đorđević completed her undergraduate and Master’s studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She is a winner of the “Rista and Beta Vukanović” Award for Painting. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in the country and the abroad; her works have been presented at the KM8 and Zvono Galleries, U10 Art Space in Belgrade and Ribnica Cultural Centre. The Hole Gallery in New York displayed her works at solo and group exhibitions and also presented her at Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico City and Los Angeles Art Fair. With the U10 Art Space, she exhibited at the LISTE Art Fair for young galleries in 2015 and in the same year participated in a residency programme of Dio Horia Art Platform, Mykonos, Greece, where she presented her works several times at group and solo exhibitions.