Artist Biography

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Isidora Gajic is a Serbian visual artist living in Brazil, working primarily with photography, installation, and artist books. Born in Belgrade in 1988, she grew up between Serbia, Hungary, and Switzerland before continuing her studies in Amsterdam, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The FotoFactory.

Her work explores themes of memory, transformation, femininity, mythology, and the emotional relationship between the body and nature. Combining analog, digital, and large-format photography, superimposed images, and experimentation with materials and paper, Gajic often creates immersive installations in which images become atmospheric objects. Silk, light, movement, and transparency are recurring elements in her practice.

Her long-term series Sirenes consists of photographs printed on silk and suspended in space, inspired by Claude Debussy’s composition Sirènes and by archetypal female figures from mythology. The works investigate fluidity, sensuality, disappearance, and metamorphosis, creating environments where photography interacts with architecture, air, and the viewer’s movement.

Gajic has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, France, Germany, Serbia, the Netherlands, and Latvia. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sereias at Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4 in Rio de Janeiro (2024), Sirenes at Simone Klein Showroom Fotografie in Cologne (2022), and a presentation of her handmade artist book Sirenes during Les Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France. In 2023, Gajic also presented a solo exhibition at Laurel Parker in Paris.

She has also participated in exhibitions at institutions including SESC Quitandinha, Pavilion of Arts Cvijeta Zuzorić in Belgrade, and Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. In 2012, she received the NEW Dutch Talent Award.

Alongside her artistic practice, Gajic worked closely with Brazilian artist Miguel Rio Branco between 2013 and 2020, contributing to exhibition production, book design, image research, archiving, and studio management.

Her international upbringing and educational background — including studies at Ecole d’Humanité in Switzerland, founded by educator Paul Geheeb and rooted in Waldorf-inspired education  continue to influence her poetic and sensorial approach to image-making.

Isidora Gajic lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.