Press & Interviews

Naked Truth by Jessie Bond, The Calvert Journal, 18th May 2018.

"Dragana Jurisic’s Jessie is a powerful, black-and-white photograph of a pregnant, nude woman on a bed, beautiful yet austere – a sad Venus. Or perhaps, in this case, an Aisling, Hibernia or Róisín Dubh. The Spartan nature of the setting, bare brick and functional metal, dispenses with any sense of luxury or ease. In a muted audio accompaniment, Jurisic reflects on her experience and leaves it to us to question whether it lives up to her right to “religious and civil liberty”. It is a tremendously complex, layered work." (Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times)

“It is a haunted, as well as haunting book; the fallout of the past buried, rather than faced.” We Can Never Go Home by Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian, 10th September 2015.

"When you interview Dragana Jurisic, the world is your lobster. Bosnian spaghetti Westerns, Irish Modesty, Getting Burnt out of your Home, and the Myth of the Yugoslave Super Human all played their part." (Colin Pantall, The Ultimate Best List of 2016)

Interview with Snježana Pavić, Jutarnji List, 2016

"This book is the surprise of the year, beautifully visualising the contemporary Balkans from a personal perspective. ‘YU: The Lost Country’ is a personal quest for a lost national identity." (Rob Hornstra in Photobook Store Magazine)

The Independent, 2014

"YU: The Lost Country, Dragana Jurisic’s stunning, subtle photographic narrative of her former homeland of Yugoslavia, is a rich, layered artwork, equal parts personal, historical and magical. The uncommon diaristic tone, though informed by history, is never overshadowed by sentimentality but basks in the celebration of the of overlooked special moments of everyday Balkan life. And it is there that she finds the leitmotif of her book: the blood cycle of dissolution, memory and renewal. The well is deep and the fountain overflows. (John Phelan's The Best Books of 2015 on Photoeye)

Looking for Yugoslavia by Pauline Eiferman, Roads and Kingdoms, 31st March 2016.

 

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2020

  • December - ‘2020 at the Gallery of Photography Ireland’, The Irish Times

  • November - Docs Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen Pitch Award Winner

  • October - Work of the Week, Crawford Art Gallery

  • September - In conversation with  Merima Dizdarević,  Galleri Format, 10th September

  • May - ‘Four Decades of the Lens: Dragana Jurišić’, Arts Council Ireland

  • February - David Solo’s Favorite: Museum byY Dragana Jurisic and Paula Meehan, The Eyes

  • January - ‘The Other Side? – Borderlands in Contemporary Irish Art’, Elsewhere Journal

 

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2018

  • December - 100 Photographic Heroines by The Royal Photographic Society in BJP

  • December - Ireland’s pro-choice activists in The Financial Times

  • September - How We See: Photobooks by Women in BJP

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in El Diario Vasco

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in Internazionale

  • August - Review of Reframing the Border exhibition in The Irish Times

  • July - 'Naked truth in Irish art' exhibition review in Irish Examiner, follow up text.

  • July - Circa review of  But still, like dust, I’ll rise  exhibition, Galway Arts Centre

  • May - 'Naked Truth' article about Instagram censorship by Jessie Bond for The Calvert Journal

  • May - ‘Her Own Creator: An interview with Dragana Jurisic’ by Orla Fitzpatrick, Gorse

  • May - The Art Newspaper on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Frieze magazine on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Evening Standard on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • April - YU: The Lost Country featured in Financial Times, 13th April

  • April - Source Photographic Rewiev, a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Rebecca O'Dwyer

  • April - Turf & Grain, Issue 3: Makers Interview with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

  • March - Art Monthly 414: March 2018 a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Joanne Laws

  • March - Review of My Own Unknown in University Times

  • March - The Irish Times feature Art in focus: Her Own Unknown by Dragana Jurišic

  • March - The Sunday Times Art review: Outposts

 

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