carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Serbian artist Jelena Bulajic. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Jelena Bulajic first garnered attention for her laborious, large-scale canvas portraits – measuring up to 3,5 meters – which flesh out the profound depth of the human countenance. Her approach to her subjects is observational: concerned with capturing the passage of time and the effects of individual histories, the gaze from within the paintings is presented without narrative or commentary. Rendered in a mix of marble dust, ground granite, limestone and kaolin, the existential spirit of the work isn’t a contemplation of mortality, rather, it is a formal exploration of tactility and surface.