Ilda Halilčević • Cloned Realities

Visual artist Ilda Halilčević is opening her new solo exhibition titled "Cloned Realities", which will be inaugurated on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at the Kozara Museum in Prijedor. The exhibition will remain open until June 13, and admission is free.

In this recent cycle, the artist presents a complex visual narrative that explores contemporary identity confronted with digital reproduction, fashion codes, and the fragmentation of the self. Using classical painting techniques, she contrasts the aesthetic elements of post-digital culture, creating faces and forms that hover between the real and the artificial. In this fusion, a new kind of reality emerges—immersive, cloned, yet alive. The exhibition invites visitors to question the boundaries between the original and the cloned, the authentic and the stylized, reality and image. Each painting functions as a mirror chamber: it reflects the observer but also distorts their presence. The cycle’s aesthetic is deliberately ambivalent: gentle, yet unsettling. These paintings belong to a post-digital aesthetic: they carry a hypnotic allure of perfect representation, yet simultaneously evoke a disquieting beauty, as if we are gazing into and immersing ourselves in something overly familiar, yet alien.

Ilda Halilčević (b. 2000) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where she is currently completing her master’s studies. She also spent part of her studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, which further enriched her painting expression. She is a recipient of the University of Sarajevo’s Silver Badge and was recognized as one of the top students of her generation.

In addition to her painting work, Ilda is actively involved in art education as well as fashion—she has participated for three years in the BH Fashion Week, the largest fashion event in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her visual sensibility and experience in the fashion world have left their mark on her artistic expression, through a distinct aesthetic and a particular relationship with the visual language of contemporary identity.

"Cloned Realities" is a kind of introspective map of emotional and psychological landscapes—a space in which the self is cloned, multiplied, and transformed. Through this exhibition, Halilčević offers a visual reflection on how we perceive ourselves in the age of the image.

Title: Cloned Realities

Artist: Ilda Halilčević

Venue: Kozara Museum, Prijedor

Opening: May 27, 2025

Duration: Until June 13, 2025

Admission: Free