FAWW GALLERY Summer Party with Jelena Milicevic

Ready to Fall in Love

Solo exhibition Jelena Milićević

FAWW Gallery

Opening Thursday 30th June 6-10PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Netil House, Studio 3RL, Ground Floor, 1 Westgate Street London, E8 3RL

Jelena Milićević, is a screen print artist from the Balkans making her London debut solo exhibition ‘Ready to Fall in Love’ in Netil House, Studio 3RL, Ground Floor, 1 Westgate Street London, E8 3RL on the 30th June, 2022 from 6 to 10:30 pm, where the audience can expect a live music performance from BB Sway & Basile Petite.

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Love is probably the most serious non-serious thing in the world. A topic that is always talked about much more than anyone actually wants to admit, and which is a wonderful gathering place where, when you happen to enter it, you encounter no rules and no reason, and where sooner or later we all happen to find ourselves. That is why it is a kind of melting pot in which all our otherwise unimportant differences become additionally irrelevant, because at some point we all face the same issues. Equally happy, equally fascinated, equally confused, equally suffering, repeating the same questions and looking for the same answers.

This summer, it is time for all of that to happen (again) promising ourselves that we really are ready. With a new collection of silk screen prints and original drawings exhibited at her solo show ‘Ready to Fall in Love’, Jelena Milićević encourages us to reset and directs us to what really is important.

In her distinct image, with few words, reduced strokes, bold colours and linearity, Jelena reminds us of simplicity and beauty of everyday life. Jelena skilfully displays fragments of a more beautiful, more relaxed reality, and her works somewhat resemble those brief exchanges that take place quite unexpectedly and during which, with just a phrase, it all make sense.

And indeed, if we had to choose a single metaphor that would represent falling in love and all that love is and can be, it would hardly be more adequate than a swimming pool because we all know that you very often jump into love like you do into the pool, headfirst. You just jump off the highest springboard and hope for the best. True, some of us slip, and experience love accidentally and unprepared. Some slide through the water self-sufficiently and completely unconscious of the world around them, until someone blocks their way and redirects them. Some enter cautiously, toe by toe, step by step, and it takes a long time before they completely let themselves go, but one thing is for sure: you love like you swim. 

About FAWW Gallery

F.A.W.W Gallery represents international screen print studios from London. The Gallery first began trading prints on Brick Lane Market in 2016 with Belgrade based studio Matrijarsija, Europe's leading collective in print making for non-aligned comics & illustration. Six years later whilst exhibiting in print fairs and curating pop-up exhibitions across the country, the gallery is now based in Hackney with a store in Netil Market and regular shows in Netil House. It is the first gallery of its kind to garner print artists from across the world associated with underground print culture and expose them in the UK. As a result the gallery’s vibrant and eclectic graphic artworks have become popular both internationally and in East London’s creative community.

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