As part of the 2 nd Industrial Art Biennial, a selection of prints from the graphic novel Bezimena will be presented. The book will be published in August 2018 and distributed by Ici Même and Fantagraphics in April 2019.Īlthough Canadian born, Nina Bunjevac spent her formative years in Yugoslavia, where she began her arts education before returning to Canada at the onset of the war of the 1990s. The visual and narrative style of Bezimena is mostly influenced by the 1942 noir classic Cat People, Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus trilogy and the television drama The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter. Making use of a classical myth as its point of departure, the artist weaves a story that functions as a parable breaking the silence on the most traumatic points relating to personal and collective histories. However, according to some sources, the act of rape happened in its entirety.ĭedicated to all the forgotten and nameless victims of sexual violence, the book is set against the artist’s lived experiences of displacement and social collapse witnessed during the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia, and its suppressed histories of named and unnamedviolence. There is very little written about this particular myth, with existing material mostly found in the form of footnotes and passing mentions. Siproites is a young man who Artemis turns into a girl as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of her virgin cohorts. Her dominion are the mountains, rivers and ports. Artemis is the virgin goddess of hunting and childbirth, daughter of Zeus. Bezimena (translated as nameless in most Slavic languages), a noir-style graphic novel/picture book for adults, is a modern-time rendition of the myth of Artemis and Siproites.
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