Darko Aleksovski
Darko Aleksovski, from North Macedonia, presents A Tablescape Between Roots and Flowers. Drawing from childhood memories of potato stamps and a family fabric embroidered with flowers, the work explores how patterns become sites of memory, utopia, and ambiguity. Over months of experimentation, Aleksovski reinterpreted the original floral design, questioning how images of flowers—whether in design, poetry, or daily life—carry both escapist dreams and layered histories. The project unfolds in two parts: a potato-stamp workshop and a participatory mural. Visitors carve stamps, make prints to take home, and leave their stamps behind. Nearby, shelves display the growing collection—an improvised alphabet of stamps—alongside drawings and monotypes, turning a private motif into a collective act of image-making. Here, the tuber shifts from kitchen staple to mark-maker, carrying traces of touch and imagination that resonate in the present moment and far beyond.
Darko Aleksovski is a visual artist working on the intersection between images and writings. His practice is formed through different visual languages and ongoing research processes, as well as the relations between personal and collective memories. Aleksovski has exhibited in numerous notable international group exhibitions, including IN-SITU: Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species at < rotor > Centre for Contemporary Art (Graz, 2024), EX-SITU: Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, 2024), All That We Have in Common at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje, 2023), You Can’t Discourse Without Disco – WHW Akademija 2022 Closing Programme at Galerija Nova (Zagreb, 2022), and the 55th Oktobarski Salon – Disappearing Things at The Museum of the City of Belgrade (Belgrade, 2014). He holds both BFA and MFA degrees from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and has participated in several artist-in-residence programs in Vienna, Frankfurt, Skopje, Linz, Split, and Dubrovnik. He is currently based in Veles, North Macedonia.
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