In House: Juliette Ezaoui and Ana Milenkovic

In House: Juliette Ezaoui and Ana Milenkovic is the second in a new series of duo exhibitions organised by and for Studio Voltaire’s community of studio artists and cultural tenants. The programme seeks to create a dialogue between two artists, finding points of convergence and collaboration between their practices.

Ezaoui and Milenkovic's motivation to collaborate came from a shared attentiveness to the relationship between micro and macro oriented perspectives. Bringing together multiple themes of aesthetic experience and analysis, the artists have considered the irrelevant or overlooked, comparing complex ideas and concepts of human design with their mundane realisation — an idea which draws inspiration from their respective interests in architectural research, cultural ephemera, botany and horticulture.

For this exhibition, Ezaoui and Milenkovic have proposed their own interpretation of a micro-macro environment; a liminal space in which drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, print and found objects cohabit within a re-imagined system of curiosity, order and scale. Contemplating the human need to analyse, distinguish and categorise the mundane, the artists foster a playful sense of interdependence, through which they invite viewers to reconsider their relationship with the preconceived objectivity of their surroundings and how these manifestations impact our ways of thinking, acting and organising the familiar. The exhibition therefore considers the implications of micro-macro as an idea and practice within a wide range of frameworks including social, cultural and ecological perspectives.

  1. Juliette Ezaoui (b. 1992, France) is a London-based artist who holds an MA in Interior Architecture from Olivier de Serre in Paris 2014, attended the Turps Art School studio programme in London (2019–2021) and recently completed a course in Organic Horticulture from OrganicLea, London (2022).

    Recent exhibitions include Room Shares, curated by Blink Collective at SafeHouse, London (2022); a site-specific installation for OrganicLea Farm, London (2022); What Remain, Cyprus College of Art, Pathos (2022); What Remained, Eel Pie Island, London (2022); Turps show, Tames Side Studio Gallery, London (2021); I could go on for ever, curated by Kate Mothes, PADA Gallery, Lisbon (2019); and Tarivoci à passer a l’heure d’été, Gallery Tarivoci, Paris (2018).

    julietteezaoui.com

    @juliette__ezaoui

  2. Ana Milenkovic (b. 1988, Belgrade) lives and works in London. She holds an MFA from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, as well as MFA and BA from Faculty of Fine Art, University of Arts in Belgrade. Milenkovic is the recipient of UAL/Clifford Chance Sculpture Award, Griffin Art Prize and Prize for Innovation from the Milos Bajic Fund.

    Solo and two-person exhibitions include We Will Take Your Technology and Your Money, Folkstone (2023); Quietism, Brooke Benington, London (2023); Shrouded Light, School Gallery, London (2022); Grimoire, Three Works, Scarborough (2020); Rosshalde, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana (2019); and The Gods Must be Crazy, Novembar Gallery, Belgrade (2018). Milenkovic has also exhibited in group shows at David Kovats Gallery, London (2023); OHSH Projects, London (2021); Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2019); The Koppel Project Central, London (2019); Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh (2018); and Below Grand, New York (2018).

    milenkovicana.net

    @if_it_bends

  3. In House: Juliette Ezaoui and Ana Milenkovic, 2024. Installation View, Studio Voltaire, London. Commissioned and produced by Studio Voltaire. Images courtesy of the artists and Studio Voltaire. Photography by Tom Carter.

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