Knots
Pavle Nikolić
Nominated by
Organ Vida

Compared to other life forms, knots display a concerning lack of interest in disguising the conditions of their undoing. Disaster is their trajectory. Just pull (the trigger) and see what happens. Cutting will also do, all vital parts are exposed here anyway. A totalizing and worldly allergy to integrity and permanence in time (without ulterior, otherworldly motives) that always leads to a series of asymmetrical exchanges: total surrender and prolonged machination, rewind and destination, discipline and supervision, precariousness and security, explicit and prudish, letting loose and holding together — you’re inextricably tied to such assemblage, your complicity woven in at the level of the loop. Do with this info what you want. Their whole existence might be an invitation to be done with them, a breath-held plea to be undone.
The Artist

Pavle Nikolić
Nominated in
By
Organ Vida
Lives and Works in
Paris
Pavle Nikolić (b. 2001, Niš, Serbia) works with photography and video, examining fundamental human tensions — authority and powerlessness, dominance and submission, aggression and passivity. He investigates how these opposing forces interact, using the constructive and transformative capacities of his chosen mediums to find the threshold at which they begin to turn into one another. Pavle studied applied photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and fine art at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He now lives and works in Paris.
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