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UNTITLED, 2004 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 207X154 CM. / 81X60 IN. 
 FRAGILE, 2004, ACRYLIC AND AQUARELL CRAYON ON CANVAS, 210X152 CM. / 83X60 IN.
 UNTITLED, 2004, ACRYLIC, CRAYON AND ADHESIVE TAPE ON CANVAS, 155X223 CM. /61X88 IN.

FRAGILE
What does it means to be a human being nowadays?
This is the question put by Milena.

We are nowadays permanently surrounded by
advertisements, notices, sign-posts, different signs
for better traffic circulation, and instructions how
to use each product no matter how banal it may be.
The artists “borrows” the form of those signs from
her environment in order to create new, her own
signs whose visual power serves as an alarm for
humanity.

In their constant wish to introduce order into everyday
life, people do not realise that they stop the natural
process and development of life, underestimating
their own ability of orientation. In a subtly ironical
way, the artist points to the fact that people nowadays
have become a product, imposing on themselves
rules such as waiting in a queue for instructions and
permissions to meet their basic needs. In the power
of her sensibility, she sees those instructions as an
attack to human individuality.

People are reduced to “traffic signs”, without identity.
Following frantically the rules of living, people become
products of their own factory.

Milena’s people are reduced to basic lines in order
to warn us that our identity disappears slowly for the
sake of general unification. The power of red colour as
a symbol of freedom of emotions is present to remind
us of human vulnerability and fragility.
The humourous is mixed with the dramatic, the
juvenile with the frightening, the innocent with the
hellish, spontaneity with mature consciousness. It is
owing to this brutal and impulsive aspect that Milena’s
work is deeply humanistic. Milena wrapped people
into bands FRAGILE, wishing to protect them. Her
work is S.O.S., the last scream supposed to wake up
human consciousness.
JANJA KRALJ

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