Mara Fortunatovic

Born in 1987 in France, Mara Fortunatović lives and works in Paris. Her practice navigates the threshold between sculpture, painting, and architecture, engaging the viewer in perceptual experiences that unfold gradually. Known for her use of minimal materials, Fortunatović creates immersive installations that operate like visual devices: spaces of latency, light modulation, and structural ambiguity.

Her works challenge dimensional stability, playing with absence and presence, gesture and stillness, visibility and disappearance. Whether suspended, folded, or arranged in layers, each element acts as a fragment inviting viewers to reconstruct space from shifting vantage points. Her titles often flirt with puns or optical illusion, but the works themselves maintain a poetic rigour rooted in light, scale, and site.

Fortunatović’s installations resist immediate legibility. They ask to be inhabited, physically and mentally, demanding time, silence, and attention. She has exhibited widely in France and internationally, including solo shows in Marseille, Dubrovnik, and Zagreb, and has participated in major group exhibitions such as the Salon de Montrouge and Drawing Room. In 2016, she was awarded the Salomon Foundation Residency Prize.