Between memory
and rupture.
The painted world of Predrag Popara — a body of work suspended between construction and collapse, intimacy and chaos. Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin, Bucharest.
I. Premise
“I am not painting objects. I am painting the pressure beneath them — the tremor of a civilization that no longer recognises its own face.”
— P.P., studio notes
II. Selected Works
Fragments from the
continuing archive.
Triptych — Passage
Oil on canvas, three panels · 200 × 540 cm
2023
Untitled (Genesis I)
Oil on canvas · 200 × 160 cm
2024
Island on Fire
Oil on canvas · 240 × 190 cm
2024
Lovers in Late Sun
Oil on canvas, diptych · 150 × 200 cm
2023
III. The Studio
The wall is a calendar of decisions, and erasures.
Popara's studios in Belgrade and Bucharest function less as workshops than as laboratories of attention — long durations of silence, sudden gestures, repainted years. The fragments left behind become the next painting's foundation.
IV. Chapters
Five movements across the work.
V. Coda
“Painting is the last room in which a human being can disappear and return, changed.”