Nufer Family (Caesarean Section)
This work reduces the vocabulary of Švalje (The Seamstresses) to its most materially direct condition. The painted image has nearly disappeared. What remains is exposed jute canvas, animal glue stiffening, a single surgical seam, and the acoustic tension of a surface that responds like stretched skin or a muted drum.
The horizontal incision, stitched with red waxed thread traditionally used in leatherwork, shifts the language of the series from symbolic anatomy toward explicit procedural reference. The title invokes the disputed and partially mythologized history of the Nufer family, frequently associated with one of the earliest narratives surrounding caesarean intervention.
A faint pink line in the upper corner introduces the only trace of cosmetic softness, almost incidental against the dominant material austerity. It reads less as decoration than as a residual cultural marker attached to femininity.
At this scale, the work no longer behaves as image.
It behaves as body.
