"My entire education, everything I had ever been told or had told myself, insisted that the production was never meant to be improvised: I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience."
""Saccharine Idyll" draws attention to the ways in which we come to rely on certain narratives, not simply for pleasure, but in order to live-to make sense of the world and even ourselves. And what happens when we start to interrogate the hollowness of that truth. Coming to terms with the deceptiveness of memory, Grlić's paintings signal that the pastel idyll is not reliable, exposing the cultural mechanisms that lie beneath:"
Martina Grlić, born and based in Zagreb, explores the politics of remembrance and reimagines everyday objects tied to female experience. Her paintings merge clear memories with surreal elements to prompt reflection on personal and cultural histories. Scenes of seemingly simple pleasures and happy memories progressively reveal the instability and deceptiveness of memory. The series Saccharine Idyll examines how pastel nostalgia and comforting narratives can mask cultural mechanisms that shape identity and perception. The work prompts interrogation of relied-upon narratives used not only for pleasure but to make sense of the world and the self.
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