Teodora Stojanović

Teodora Stojanović

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Teodora Stojanović, half Cypriot, half Serbian, was born in Belgrade 12.07.1981. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the professor's class Dušan Otašević and specialist studies in the professor's class Vladimir Veličković. Won numerous awards from the field of painting, achieved 16 individual and over 100 group ones

exhibition.In addition to painting, she also completed her master's studies of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Member of ULUS, ULUPUDS, ICAF.


Portfolio:

Circle

Through the pictures, questions are asked and answers are obtained, but it also leaves the possibility for the observer to come to his own realizations and answers. These are questions about the meaning of existence, justice, living, jealousy, human actions, good, evil, happiness, love, justice and injustice, death, the world, wars, transhumanism... and many others. Apart from that, the paintings deal with the time we live in, the turbulent period of changes for the worse. Circle is a name that describes life because the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end, they come together in one point.

Philosopher “Philosopher”

A cyborg or philosopher is a representation of a thinking being, his head flows into more obscure layers, these are the thoughts that the philosopher analyzes. One of the thoughts is focused on the topic of transhumanism, in which freedom of thought and action will be just an illusion. People will eventually become slaves who carry out orders, thinking it is their will. This philosopher is presented as a combination of man and robot. This can be seen in two ways, one is that his mechanical arm is just one part of the pictorial representation of his thoughts, the other is that he is already a half-human half-robot thinking about the pros and cons of superman ideas. According to the idea of
transhumanism, a mechanical man would have many advantages, he would become stronger, more powerful, more resistant. On the one hand, in terms of physical handicaps, mechanical elements are an excellent solution, but if a person is acted upon in such a way as to affect his mentality, thoughts and emotions, then transhumanism is the downfall of man and his destruction. Behind the story of a being without weakness hides the desire to destroy spirituality and reduce everything to one mechanical system in which everyone would be networked and connected. Beings that do not have a self - their Self, because that Self becomes collective.

Surrender “Surrender”

Surrender

Relationship with a higher being. Surrender is the complete surrender of a being to its creator. Man is a being who is fundamentally alone. As much as we are sometimes surrounded by other people, we are actually alone. While other people are a kind of apparent support, that is, only some consolation for situations in which we fail to help ourselves. The being from the picture is in some kind of prayer, he holds a heart in his hand that he is handing over to the creator, but he is also limited by the vaults of the space in which he is, his prayer seems to have been rejected or the creator does not hear it. A man is born alone and dies alone, and if he is surrounded by a crowd of people he is alone. Loneliness can best be felt when a person is overcome by some illness or pain. And especially before death itself. In illness, he first tries to overcome that condition. That struggle becomes primary for him. The pride he had disappears, petty desires, earthly aspirations disappear. Everything that was important, everything that was being chased becomes minor and irrelevant. Such a state was given to man for the purpose of purifying both spirit and body. Over time, the soul of a person becomes rough, cold, cruel (I do not mean cruelty in its full and complete meaning. People who are extremely cruel can hardly reach any states of knowledge, even in the greatest torments.) Only in such states in when he feels powerless, a person can rise above everyday life, understand and see mistakes. Only then does realization open... Because he realizes that the only way out is to turn to something higher. Only in the creator can he find solace and liberation. Salvation can only be achieved through an inner conversation with oneself and God. Many diseases can be self-healed by willpower. Illness of the body is also a reflection of the state of the mind.