SLOBODAN TRAJKOVI

This work was constructed by collecting symbols of Christianity, then by following the iconographic rule in representing a Christian motif, and finally, by lending my own body to carry the scene. This would be all "normal" and would represent a characteristic portrait of a baptism scene of a person in a Christian church of the 14th, 15th or 16th century if it wasn't for the appearance of the Garfish on the head of the person being baptized but on the head of the artist who is in the process of working/performing. The image of two heads so close to each other inevitably poses the question of their kinship. The Garfish lives close to the surface, 5 to 10 cm below the surface of water, and is a long and fast moving fish. In its swiftness it constantly flies over the surface and "flies" into another coexistence, into the space of air. It is not a bird but neither is it only a fish. In this case it lies spread on the "artist's" head that is wet and in the water. Like the Garfish, the artist..