From the beginning, Arandelovic has worked with portraiture and figurative art, celebrating female existence, fantasies and beauty while portraying everyday life stories, but also moments of solitude and melancholy. Her work is deeply personal and sentimental. She tells stories with images that are without exception seductive, colorful and luscious. Some of her earlier works are profoundly melancholic, emphasizing the ubiquitous sense of the modern world. In everything, she constantly seeks to evoke feelings.
The figure of the woman in Biljana’s paintings always contrasts with the background. The scene is set with a figure above the city drinking coffee, or sitting down in the sun. Then we, as observers, arrange the woman of our choice who is most suited to us in our vision. The women in Biljana’s paintings govern these situations. They are subordinated to the city and the sun and the meadows and the beach.
The size of the figures in her paintings show the strength of the women. But this power is not physical. These women retain their femininity and eroticism in every situation. Erotica is not vulgar and it occurs subtly, just implied. In other words, erotica is presented as a principle of femininity in Biljana’s work. Beauty itself is part of the feminine power.
The women Arandelovic portrays are not personal but are more a symbol of womanhood. They possess a strong driving force and watch us from the canvas. While looking at some of the paintings, we get the impression that we are interrupting something. Some scenes make a contrast between two sides of a woman. One is a dominant and confident woman, who does not hide her femininity, while the other, mostly smaller and monochrome, is someone who is shy, who seeks protection.
All of the acrylic paintings belong to the earlier series that were exhibited at Marion Fischer’s Gallery Artmoments in Graz, from 2005 to 2011.