I’m a Sarajevo-born and Stockholm-based architect and visual artist interested in the interaction between people and places. For over a decade now, the focus of my architectural work has been on public urban environments and has included working with the identity and tonality of places. My work stems from a firm belief that public space has the capacity to structure and reproduce social relations of society and is a product as well as a creator of social conditions. I’m passionate about the interaction between places and people in the context of urban life, and how our surroundings shape our reality has often been the subject of my artistic exploration. Reoccurring themes in my work are social exclusion, alienation, and a search for higher meaning, a metaphysical level, in an increasingly estranging cityscape. One in which we are not only cut off from a sense of social belonging but from our immaterial, or spiritual, sense of self as well.

A continuous source of inspiration is the Japanese concept of Ma where the void or lack of physical/visual content in an artwork or a place is considered to be as important as the rest of the work/place. Ma suggests a space waiting to be occupied by various phenomena, spirits or the presence of visitors, to become completed and whole. Thus, my works are as much observations of voids, alienation and vulnerability in the urban landscape as narratives of dreamlike in-between realities of street life.

Recently exhibited works at “Dualism” virtual exhibition at The Holy Art Gallery, London and at “The Shards” at Pumphuset art gallery in Trollhättan.