Through her artwork, Tatjana seeks to reconcile her relation to the disparate places she calls home: Serbia, which she left as a young adult, and Canada, where she lives now. She is interested in how a heterogeneous cultural identity affects creativity and how new artistic connections are made between old and new references.
Tatjana’s visual vocabulary is influenced by geometric abstract expressionism. She combines her native cultural memories, such as Serbian ethnic motifs and nostalgia for the naivety of Yugoslav utopia, with the contemporary concerns of western Canada with its complicated history and endangered future.
Her artistic practice is based on experimental and iterative approaches to abstract painting, utilizing semiotics and genealogy. The materials and processes include drawing, painting, fiber art, and serigraphy. The methods of approaching materials are tied to deeper meanings. For instance, destructive and reparative fiber art processes, such as cutting and patching, re-enact the experiences inherent in the lives of displaced people.