TEXTS

All That Has Been Created – On the Art of Valentina Savić
Nada Maćig Sekulić, PhD

Valentina Savić’s ceramic artworks exist at the intersection of sculpture, philosophy and feminist anthropology. Working primarily in porcelain, she creates installations and objects that dissolve the boundaries between matter and form, spirit and body, contemplation and sensual experience. Situated within the domain of female experience — among dining tables, powder puffs, candy boxes and everyday rituals — her works reveal the monumental within the seemingly insignificant.

Combining contemporary ceramic art, design and philosophical reflection, Savić transforms ordinary porcelain objects into metaphysical propositions. Her installations invite participation, insisting that the artwork is not complete in itself but unfolds in the perception of the observer. Through porcelain as both fragile material and alchemical medium, she explores creation, transformation and the sacred origin of everyday life.

Her ceramic installations and sculptural environments represent a refined unity of technique and concept — a distinctive artistic language that merges contemporary art practice with deep philosophical inquiry.

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A Study in Porcelain – On the Work of Valentina Savić
Jelena Popović, senior curator, Museum of Applied Art

For more than two decades, Valentina Savić has developed a distinctive artistic language in porcelain, balancing between sculpture and design while operating in the expanded field of contemporary ceramics. Her work engages post-structuralist feminist theory and explores the possibility of a woman’s discourse in ceramic art, examining prejudice, institutional canons, consumer society, tradition and gender roles.

Working primarily through ceramic installations, Savić constructs intimate mise-en-scène environments in which everyday objects become conceptual carriers of memory, transformation and social critique. Drawing on matrix theory and feminist thought, her porcelain works reinterpret domestic space, ritual, and consumption as philosophical and political terrains.

Through personal narratives and symbolic forms, she repositions ceramics beyond the historical division between high and low art. Her practice investigates the conceptual potential of porcelain as both material and metaphor, merging feminist art, contemporary sculpture and critical reflection on modern society.

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