Photomanipulation 3rd place winner

This is a story about some strange happenings in the grand palace, which occurred once a woman living there found a passage to the parallel universe.

In this universe animals could talk and lived with people in unity without hierarchy, and the woman could be whatever she wanted to be…she could travel through time, be the half-woman half-animal, she could fly and also visit some places that she couldn’t visit as an ordinary woman.

But all of that could turn on the dark side and become a nightmare if she lost what’s important - her heart, or in the case of a magical parallel universe - her pear. So, in order for this magic to happen, she had to find the pear or carry it with herself. Only by finding the pear she could enjoy this wonderful world that she discovered.

Tale of the Blue Pear is a story where things are not always what they seem at a first glance. In this world anything is possible if one enters it with pure intentions.

Nikolina is a photographer and visual artist from Zagreb, Croatia.

She feels a profound fascination with human behavior: with her works she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and effects that endless soul searching has on our lives.

In her metaphorical presentations, from dreamlike landscapes and fantasy scenery to strange and dark characters, creatures and environments, she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.

Nikolina's work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and several art projects.

Her work is included in the largest exhibition of contemporary surrealism art in the world "International Surrealism Now" and is also represented in the prestige "Lexikon phantastischer Künstlerinnen" by Gerhard Habarta.