Collection: Slavica Perković

Slavica Perković is a Serbian-born artist whose practice engages feminist image culture, media critique, staged identity, and the politics of desire. Working with photography, text, and appropriated imagery, Perković produces works that interrogate the construction of femininity through advertising language, popular culture, and the male gaze. Her image-text works overlay found or staged photographs with direct, often unsettling statements that expose the mechanisms of desire, performance, and infantilization operating within everyday visual culture.

Her 1995 exhibition Desire at Gallery RAM, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica — presented with photographer Lewis Baltz — placed her practice within the broader Los Angeles independent gallery landscape of the mid-1990s, connecting her work to the conceptual and photographic traditions of the Pictures Generation.

This collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Perković’s practice.