RioArt Residency x SuperRare collab
"Postcards", Group show at Offline gallery, New York, USA
The idea and process
During the residency, I spent hours talking with Brazilian friends about Rio’s culture, history, politics, and daily life. I was fascinated by how beauty and chaos coexist there, the joy and rhythm on the surface, complex stories underneath. Those conversations shaped the emotional core of Postcards. Before traveling, I had already planned the concept, bought postcards in Belgrade, scanned and reprinted their backs on one side of the drawing paper leaving them with the blank front. In Rio, I spent a week gathering stories, then another reinterpreting them visually in watercolor. Then I mailed them out, unprotected, so they’d get stamped and sealed by the postal system.
Shot form the Post Office before shipping, Rio de Janeiro, August 4th, 2025
By sending them through the postal service, I completely released control and that uncertainty became part of the piece’s meaning. After a month and a half of scilence waiting, they started arriving to the gallery, one by one. The last one reached five days before the opening. It was a true test of patience and trust! Seeing them finally reunited in New York felt like watching my own memories arrive one by one and it felt surreal: Six small fragments of Rio, traveling across continents and coming full circle.
Exhibition setup, Offline gallery, Manhattan, New York, USA, 2025
Each postcard comes with a digital counterpart: an interactive blockchain token that lets you explore both sides digitally. It’s also an easy way to view and collect the work online. See collection on SuperRare.
Left: The Ritual, right: ~EIRO,Interactive digital tokens, SuperRare
Postcards came out as my answer to the complexities I witnessed in Rio, where beauty and struggle coexist, and where colonial history still shape everyday life. They are messages in reverse, a correspondence from Rio to the global world, from a city once colonized to the very center of global and economical power today. Each card reclaims the act of resistance, carrying traces of lived experience across geographical and ideological borders. Finally, the act of sending is also an act of trust, a belief that what we create and communicate will find its destination.