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Vesna Jovanovic is a contemporary visual artist whose work ranges from surreal drawings to pinhole photographs and double-walled ceramic vessels. Her creative process often involves a combination of chance and precision, reflecting interests in time, science, and the unity of opposites.

“My involvement in science caused a personal transformation that is reflected in my current artwork. During my pursuit of chemistry, moments and events gradually acquired names, and the world turned into a language of formulas. But once something could be named and broken down, it no longer contained its sublime, powerful anonymity. As a result, and despite my continued love of chemistry, I experienced anguish and a desire to find other ways to explore the enigmas of life.”

Instead of serving as a means of self-expression or communication, art now fulfills the same role that chemistry once did: it is an avenue of inquisition and discovery. Unlike chemistry however, art aims to reveal questions rather than answers. (via)

Benedetta Bonichi relies upon the collaboration of Italian and foreign important universities and scientific institutions, in order to realise her works; where she has been invited to deliver lectures and teach.

After years of research and studies (ranging from philosophy, ancient history and language philosophy to paleethnology and ethology) thanks to the President of the Italian Microbiology Society, she gets into contact with the School of Human Anthropology within the Biology Faculty in Florence and collaborates with some of the American teachers. In 1991 she leaves University dedicating herself to music, dance and mime and founds a theatre company, also beginning drawing, painting and sculpting. In 1995, by chance, she comes across the article “To see in the dark”, written in Germany in 1934.
In light of a Kantian reading of reality of Laurentian features, from 1995 to 1997 she creates approximately fifty sculptures illustrating the theme of shadows. Persuaded by the need to go beyond, “I do not know how to study, describe, nor draw this magnificent obsession that is reality…”, Benedetta Bonichi seeks a new type of language. After years of research going beyond aesthetics and ignoring light, in 1999 she creates the first X-ray images.

“Radiography is more than a technique. It is rather a teknè; that is the only possible means to read reality, through matter rather than light. Radiography, together with photography, digitalisation and fresco powders…” (via)