ARTS, CRAFTS AND FACTS, 2017-2020

  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (Financial Profits, Corporate Profits, S&P, Employment), 2017 Embroidery on cotton 105 x 147 cm (41 3/8 x 57 7/8 in.)
  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (Distribution of wealth, top 5%, top 20%, Second 20%, Third 20%, Botton 20%, Fourth 20%), 2017 Embroidery on cotton 103 x 141 cm (40 1/2 x 55 1/2 in.)
  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (100% Productivity, +77% Total Compensation/Inflation, +30% Total Compensation, -7% Average Hourly Wages), 2018 Embroidery on cotton Unique 90 x 130 cm (35 3/8 x 51 1/8 in.)
  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (Top 10%, 90%), 2018 Embroidery on cotton Unique 90 x 130 cm (35 3/8 x 51 1/8 in.)
  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (Productivity, Average hourly compensation, Average hourly wage), 2019 Embroidery on cotton Unique 90 x 130 cm (35 3/8 x 51 1/8 in.)
  • Arts, Crafts and Facts (Major Sector Productivity, Wages of Good - Producing Workers), 2019 Embroidery on cotton Unique 90 x 130 cm (35 3/8 x 51 1/8 in.)

In her practice Maja Bajevic confronts privacy with the public as well as the personal with the political. Her personal view on phenomena of a global world becomes the epicenter of public discussions about truth, identity and homeland. Subjects such as the abuse of power or religion are as central and common to her work as migration, marginalization of the foreign and the tension between the local and the global. By questioning political and economic structures of our time, she is enabled to create works of stunning subtlety. First shown at the exhibition “All World’s Futures” in the Venice Biennale in 2015 the ongoing series of embroidery works addresses issues of globalization and human labor. The graphics embroidered in the cotton fabric represent discrepancies and fluctuations of income, prices of commodities, productivity and average wages.

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