Nemanja Nikolić

Uncontained Images is an audio/video installation, composed of five different animated films created by drawing frames from different film sequences. Photographs of the drawn frames (usually connected by motif, genre, theme or author) are then integrated in a frame-by-frame animation, whose surroundings are covers and pages of books from the period of self-management socialism in the SFR Yugoslavia. The animations are infinite loops, that is, they are cyclical articulations of time in infinite motion. All five videos have separate sounds that mix and complement each other in space. These are the sound of a machine, the sound of waves and the sound of book pages turning at speed.

Nemanja Nikolić graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2010, Painting Department, where he is now completing his doctoral project. Since 2007 he has exhibited actively in the country and abroad and received a number of awards: Prize for Drawing from the “Vladimir Veličković” Fund, special purchase prize for a mural and wall installation from the Raiffeisen Bank and 12HUB Gallery and Award for Creative Innovation from the “Miloš Bajić” Fund. His works are part of many private and public collections, including:  ABN AMRO Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, USA; WAP Foundation, Seoul, South Korea; Ekard Collection, Hague, Netherlands; Telenor Collection, Belgrade, October Salon Collection (Cultural Centre of Belgrade), Collection of the Šumatovačka Centre for Fine Arts and Education, Belgrade, Serbia. Nemanja Nikolić is the initiator of the creation of the U10 Art Space in Belgrade.