Domestic Landscapes and Happy Narratives by Mirza Cizmic

By (author): Mirza Cizmic

Title: Domestic Landscapes and Happy Narratives

Subtitle: Stolen Memories

Blurb:

Domestic Landscapes and Happy Narratives brings together a body of work shaped by memory, absence and reconstruction. I was born in 1985 in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and much of my early childhood remains blurred, defined less by images than by sensations. I have no photographs from those years, only the stories told by my family and a lingering emotional landscape that I try to translate through painting.

In this book, I revisit those early impressions by recreating scenes that may or may not have happened. I use photographs from other people’s lives as starting points. From there, I build fictional domestic environments filled with people, animals, objects and symbols, sometimes absurd, sometimes unsettling. These images speak to the chaos, humour and tension of a shared space shaped by memory, family and imagination.

This work is not about realism. It is about emotional truth. It reflects a kind of ongoing negotiation with the past, one I explore through oil painting and narrative construction. If there is one constant in this work, it is the search for freedom: freedom from silence, from forgetting, and from the weight of what remains unspoken. Painting helps me make sense of what I cannot explain in words. This book is a record of that process.

ISBN: 978-87-7620-507-2

Book language: English

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Natalia Manole

Designer: Tea Jagodic

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€): 129

Keywords: Stolen Memories, journey, emotions, identity, art