ARTIST STATEMENT
Unconditional Love is a conceptual installation exploring emotional repetition, waiting, and the desire to be chosen. Composed of handwritten letters on fragile tissue paper, the work borrows the language of formal correspondence to express something fundamentally irrational: the hope that persistence, achievement, or recognition might finally deserve love. Crumpled and stained, each letter carries the traces of previous disappointment while becoming the support for another attempt, another explanation, another promise.
Rooted in a personal experience yet extending beyond autobiography, the project reflects on the ways many women are conditioned to equate fulfilment with being chosen emotionally, socially or professionally. Repetition becomes both the form and the subject of the work, revealing how hope continually rewrites reality.
Conceived as an evolving project, Unconditional Love grows through each exhibition, incorporating new encounters and institutional exchanges into an expanding archive that will ultimately culminate in an artist’s book.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Daniela Markovic is a French artist based in Switzerland. She holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Research from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where her thesis explored automata, repetition and emotional projection.
Working across automata, interactive systems, sound and installation, Markovic investigates the rituals people develop to navigate emotional uncertainty, intimacy, loss, and longing. Her works bring together body fragments, mechanical gestures, and everyday materials in situations of suspended repetition: a hand endlessly repeats a gesture, a heart continues to beat. Repetition becomes both survival mechanism and poetic resistance.
This exploration extends from her early paintings to her recent installations. Whether layering paint until water appears to move, or transforming fragile materials into carriers of memory, her practice inhabits the threshold between the human and the mechanical. Across media, her work examines how gesture, technology, and material preserve emotion, memory, projection and the persistent hope for connection.
© Daniela Markovic