Jelena Savic

Jelena Savic (1981) artwork spans poetry, performance, digital illustrations and comic books, influenced by feminist and critical theory, coloniality/modernity world system theory, Afropessimism, whiteness, and critical race theory challenges non-Roma supremacy and canonical representations of Roma subjectivity. In 2024, she performed “Double Nobodies” and contributed visuals to Unveiling Memories at Kai Dikhas Foundation in Berlin. Savic’s visuals and comic books are also featured in “Consent Not to Be an Individual Entity” at Hammarkullen Art Gallery, Gothenburg.
In 2022, she participated with her poetry in Kafana Lab programme at Grüner Salon of Volksbühne theater organized by RomaTrial (no-profit Roma organization, based in Berlin) , and performed “Draw a Roma Woman: The Politics of Emotion Under the European Gadjo Supremacy” at the ACUD MACHT NEU cultural centre in Berlin. Her poems are published in the spring 2023 edition of Packingtown Review and in the anthology Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry (2016).
Her early poetry collection, Explosive Particles (2004), was published by The Matica srpska.