Smartphone Light 11

oil on canvas, 150x100 cm.

The series of artworks titled ‘Light of technology’ was made by observing the environment where people are obsessed by mobile phones - one of the most popular ways of social communication which is connecting and alienating people at the same time. 
Modern society experiences life as fast-paced and time as instant; society thus forces individuals to accept the progress of technology which, on the surface, solves some of our problems but also creates new ones. Is the abundance of information enabled by our phones an ideal world for us? Or, is the person communicating via social networks actually creating an ideal illusion for himself/herself?
The focus of my artworks are people enthralled by the virtual world, seduced by modern devices where the only source of light originates from the displays showing us a better, parallel existence. Those people are lonely and deeply focused on their virtual worlds, their personal parallel universes. Their intimate space alienated from the rest of the world is juxtaposed with Nature, an unignorable constant of our existence.


Smartphone Light 12

oil on canvas, 150x170 cm.

The series of artworks titled ‘Light of technology’ was made by observing the environment where people are obsessed by mobile phones - one of the most popular ways of social communication which is connecting and alienating people at the same time. 
Modern society experiences life as fast-paced and time as instant; society thus forces individuals to accept the progress of technology which, on the surface, solves some of our problems but also creates new ones. Is the abundance of information enabled by our phones an ideal world for us? Or, is the person communicating via social networks actually creating an ideal illusion for himself/herself?
The focus of my artworks are people enthralled by the virtual world, seduced by modern devices where the only source of light originates from the displays showing us a better, parallel existence. Those people are lonely and deeply focused on their virtual worlds, their personal parallel universes. Their intimate space alienated from the rest of the world is juxtaposed with Nature, an unignorable constant of our existence.


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Ivan Milenkovic