Regeneration

REGENERATION (exhibition with Hristina Zafirovska and Maja Kirovska)

Installation exhibited at:

         – Cultural Information Center of Republic of N. Macedonia, Belgrade, Serbia (2025)

         – Cultural Information Center of Republic of N. Macedonia, Tirana, Albania (2024)

         – CC Magaza, NI Institute and Museum Bitola, Bitola, R.N. Macedonia (2024)

         – Youth Cultural Center (MKC), Skopje, R.N. Macedonia, curator – Gorjan Gjorgjiev (2023) 

• Dimensions: variable
• Technique: mixed media

The exhibition REGENERATION brings together the works of Ana Ivanovska, Hristina Zafirovska, and Maja Kirovska around the theme of personal and collective regeneration during the pandemic and ongoing global crises. Through different visual approaches, the artists explore fear, isolation, uncertainty, and restricted freedom, while focusing on the human capacity for recovery, adaptation, and transformation. The exhibition reflects on regeneration not only as a physical or social process, but also as an inner emotional and psychological renewal. Emerging from experiences of crisis, the works examine how individuals and communities rebuild themselves, rediscover balance, and search for hope in periods of instability. Through art, regeneration becomes a space of reflection, healing, resilience, and the possibility of new beginnings.

Ana Ivanovska’s works explore inner transformation, emotional tension, fear, and regeneration shaped by the pandemic, wars, and contemporary global events. Through experimental combinations of photography, photomontage, print, collage, and materials such as razor blades, matches, and plexiglass, she creates visual compositions that reflect vulnerability, isolation, limited freedom, and the search for renewal and hope.

“Map of Feelings” reflects inner fears and emotional tension caused by wars and current global events. Through the words “FEAR” and “LESS” written with razor blades on “bleeding” world maps, the work explores anxiety, vulnerability, and the hope of overcoming fear and becoming stronger.

“Countdown” explores transformation, isolation, and the longing for freedom during the pandemic and ongoing global crises. Created through photography, print, and burned matches, the work reflects fear and emotional uncertainty. The matches reference the markings prisoners make to count the days until release, while the word “FREE” written with burned matches is placed on top of the photograph. This raises the question: when the new ages, the new cycle of transformation, of a more humane way of life, of renewal will come?