Artist Džeko Hodžić passes away; cultural links between Lynch and Crnjanski explored

The academic painter Džeko Hodžić has passed away, leaving behind a diverse artistic legacy that includes paintings, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collages, and assemblages. Born in Montenegro and having built his professional career in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hodžić was known for his studious approach and refusal to be bound by a single medium or audience expectation.

In a separate cultural context, explorations of radical alterity draw connections between the cinematic works of David Lynch, specifically ‘Inland Empire’, and the literary themes found in Miloš Crnjanski’s ‘A Novel About London’. These works are examined through the lens of how seemingly distant elements can achieve a sense of unity or interconnectedness within an aesthetic or poetic space.