The Collections. Archives of sensory experiences
Date: 24.07.2025 19:00
Place: Art and design gallery «A&A Interior»
Address: RPCR Aqua Residence, Porto Montenegro
Free entry, RSVP office@aainterior.me
19:00 - Opening of the exhibition. Evening ceremony with prosecco and music.
Art & Design gallery A&A Interior invites you to the opening of the exhibition:
«The Collections. Archives of sensory experiences»
The gallery is fortunate to be able to showcase two different projects, born and nurtured in different soils and, probably, continents, but which, in our opinion, carry a similar philosophical concept.
Sculptor Natalija Ranković and artist Victoria Courtaux explore natural forms through sculpture and abstract photography. Their works reveal the hidden rhythms, textures, and beauty of nature, inviting viewers to a sensory experience shaped by materials, space, and light.
“In my practice, I explore how interaction with natural forms shapes our understanding of time and existence. My works combine a desire to escape, achieved through a tangible sensory experience, encouraging viewers to notice the transience of existence and its beauty,” says sculptor Natalija Ranković.
In an attempt to preserve her sensory experiences, the artist seeks form and material in which to express and encapsulate emotions, creating a kind of archive of fleeting, disappearing impressions.
Traveling, artist and photographer Victoria Courtaux finds various marks, certain counterpoints, in the environment of inanimate nature, which summarize human emotions in her interpretation and also carry a profound story about the deliberate search for beauty, love, and a sublime state of consciousness.
Revealing the hidden beauty of nature and everyday scenes through abstract forms, textures, and light, this collection of photographs transforms the familiar into mesmerizing compositions, revealing art where you least expect it.
The exhibition will be open from July 24 to August 22, 2025.
Natalija Ranković (Novi Sad, Serbia) is a contemporary sculptor working primarily with ceramic, fused glass, and stone. She lives and works in her hometown of Novi Sad. She earned her BA in Painting in 2020 at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of Goran Despotovski, and completed her MFA in Sculpture at the same institution in 2022, under the mentorship of Magdalena Pavlović. She is a member of SULUV (Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina), ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia), and the artist collective “Likovni krug” based at the Petrovaradin Fortress. Her work has been recognized with two scholarships from the Dositeja Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia, as well as a grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, supporting her participation in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg.
Victoria Courtaux (born Victoria Plaksin) was born in the former USSR and spent her formative years absorbing the richness of Russian culture and the arts, including attending a classical art school. In her early teens, she migrated to Australia and was mentored by accomplished artists from her homeland - Ruv Nemiro (Ruvim Nemirovsky) and Margarita Krivitsky. Her early passion, and fascination to date, is portraiture and figurative art - works where she blends art, psychology and spirituality. Her creativity also extended to interiors and exploration of how inhabited spaces impact human psychology.
Victoria’s curiosity led her to explore life, art and culture further abroad, spending several years living in UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and France. It is during these nomadic years that she began to write poetry and do photography to capture and express the richness of her experiences. During her travels in Colombia, Victoria met her French-born husband, and after living together in Paris, they returned to Australia for 14 years to raise a family. Here, Victoria’s art, poetry and photography were influenced by their life in cosmopolitan Melbourne, followed by 3 years of living on their off-grid rainforest homestead in the Otways. In 2024, Victoria returned to Europe with her family, making the inspirational Boka Bay in Montenegro her base for further creative pursuits in art, photography, poetry and interior design.
