Her Own by Dragana Jurišić

“Her Own is not just a story about the mystery-shrouded life of her aunt. It also entails powerful accounts drawn from Jurišić’s own life, as well as giving us brief portraits of other strong female family members, including her mother and grandmother and oldest aunt, Milanka. ” MARK DURDEN

HER OWN weaves together the life stories of three women: the artist’s aunt Gordana, her own and that of L'Inconnue de la Seine – three women, their fates and mind reflections, traumatic and resilience and survival instinct resonating. Alongside them, emerges right before our eyes what is most common still up to this day: the fictionalisation, victimisation and subsequent margninilisation & annihilation of women within the grand and minor historical narrative.

HER OWN attempts the literal somatisation of the wound and at the same time the recovery of a woman and her own right to tell her story. Next to her, the viewer/reader is confronted with an infinite crowd of identities and life stories relegated to the status of the ungraspable/uncanny/unknown, a convenient pretext to have them deprived from their fundamental rights and to whip them off from the face of the earth. (Natasha Christia, January 2023)