This drawing humorously revisits The Treachery of Images through a specifically Serbian absurdity. By “correcting” the curved pipe into a straightened form, the work invokes the local idiom to straighten the crooked Drina River — an expression describing futile attempts to resolve the inherently unresolvable.
The gesture simultaneously quotes, misunderstands, and lovingly sabotages Magritte’s original proposition.
If the image is no longer a pipe, and certainly not a Magritte, it may instead be an impossible act of cultural translation.
