Katarina Šaptović, born in Ivanjica, came to Belgrade after high school. In 2018, she founded the KezVez brand, which is based on the application of hand embroidery on textiles. Exhibited at several group and three solo exhibitions (“Black on white” 2012, “Women’s Society” 2021, “Faith” 2022).

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“Overthink”

In my environment, I am recognized as someone who is engaged in a traditional occupation, hand embroidery. That’s why I constantly hover above tradition and modernity. I often feel like I don’t belong to either the traditional or the modern world, that’s why I wanted to show through my embroidery that gap and the parallel world that I have to deal with every day, in addition to all the daily things, in order to live from my artistic work. What affects my work and what creates obstacles and why I constantly have to balance between parallel worlds in which there are politicians, daily life, routines, stopping the suffering that is always present, branded clothes, globalism, there is also me lying and I don’t know if I’m dead or resting and other things that happen above my daily life and beyond my power.