📍 Dom kulture Silosi Belgrade
🗓 Opening: Friday, September 19, 2025, at 7 PM
On Friday, September 19 at 7 PM, director and artist Maja Uzelac will present her first solo exhibition Second Hand Emotion at Dom kulture Silosi Belgrade.
This multimedia installation unfolds as a visual essay on the fragile and tense relationship between humans and nature in today’s spectacle-driven society. Through everyday rituals and contemporary stereotypes, the exhibition builds an eco-anxious collection of poetry, expressed in diptychs, triptychs, columns, and rows, speaking the universal language of images.
As in her acclaimed film work, the camera is ever-present, positioned between the scene and the eye, while background narratives shift between mass media and Internet simplifications. A witty tension between expectation and reality emerges in a naïve search for freedom, while loneliness rises as the central emotion of modern life.
Critics on Second Hand Emotion:
“Maja Uzelac’s work flows through video, photography, and writing like a quiet stream, tracing fragile connections between perception, memory, and emotion. These emotions are woven into formal and symbolic analogies, creating a fabric that is both fragile and enduring – a meditation on the hidden textures of life itself.” — Mihael Milunović
“A series of images drawn from life, condensed in triptychs, a story that seeks to tame through direction; feverishly; time slips away, chasing the future. Images depict the escape. And hope. Instability and the struggle to endure.” — Srđan Veljović
“Images of curves, monuments, billboards, signs, streets, people and their reflections alternate between shelter and tension, as we move among them, trying to understand what we are fleeing from, what we are reaching for, and what awaits us.” — Zorana Đaković Minniti
The exhibition will remain open to the public until October 28, 2025, with the support of Hemofarm Foundation, A1 Serbia, Gaia Movement, and Silosi Belgrade.
About the Author: Maja Uzelac
Maja Uzelac is a director and linguist, widely recognized as the creator of the cult TV show Kulturni nokaut. She has been a columnist for leading newspapers, magazines, and online platforms, and the author of the book Prosto. Uzelac has directed award-winning music videos, fashion films, commercials, and the feature documentary Ej Salaši, exploring a vanishing epoch through the story of Zvonko Bogdan.
She is the founder of the creative studio and production house Lava Pop. Known also as a DJ, cultural worker, fashion rebel, and the voice of Belgrade, Maja Uzelac continues to cross boundaries between art, media, and urban culture.
Writer. Blogger. Traveler. Researcher. Electronic Music Lover.
