Dubravka Tullio: Homage to Summer

Works from the series Homage to Summer stem from a fragmented everyday life and reflections on the transience of space and time. Through drawing, charcoal, acrylic, digital recordings, and sound, Tullio captures moments that are then transposed onto paper or canvas. The sea, light, solar glare, and nighttime reflections become a field of meditation on time, change, and memory.

By repeating motifs and through a contemplative process, the artist builds an archive of sensations - smells, colors, textures, and sounds, in which nature is not a scene, but a state. In the series Ardura, for example, she repeatedly attempts to capture the shimmering of the sea at night, setting it in counterpoint to daytime solar glare, while fragments of sound become a visual record through a spectrogram. The motif of the agave flower symbolizes both the transience and endurance of life, at once the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one.

The exhibition Homage to Summer presents an all-encompassing concept in which fragments of space and time are brought together, inviting the viewer to slow down and immerse themselves in what often goes unnoticed. Through her work, Tullio leads us on a brief dive into something elusive and different, where instability, changeability, and impermanence prevail, yet from which we emerge, if only temporarily, freed and light.

Dubravka Tullio, an academically trained painter, works as a senior curatorial educator at the Dubrovnik Natural History Museum and as an illustrator and author of numerous museum and educational projects.