Ambre Iperti Vukmirovic

Your work spans across several mediums—painting, sculpture, installation, and video. How do you decide which medium to use for a particular idea or emotion?

The medium usually reveals itself through the emotional texture of the idea. I’ll paint if a dream seems fragile, like a vanishing memory. It turns into an installation or sculpture if it has an intense or immersive quality. I select items that reflect the feeling I wish to express or keep.

Dreams and the subconscious seem central to your practice. Can you share how you translate these intangible states into physical form?

I work instinctively. I start with fragments, images, sensations, sometimes sentences from dreams and follow them until they form a shape. The goal is never realism, but emotional truth. I use symbols like oversized flowers or mythical figures to embody feelings too large or strange to explain directly.

Ambre Iperti Vukmirovic | The unseeen feast

The alter ego “Bobby” appears in your work. Who is Bobby, and what role does this persona play in your artistic storytelling?

Bobby is both a guardian and a witness. They’re an alter ego who exists between worlds observing ours while belonging to a dream-realm of their own. Bobby is non-gendered, emotionally fluid, and free from the binaries of our world. They allow me to explore vulnerability, care, and escapism from a place of tenderness and otherness.

You draw from fairy tales, retro aesthetics, and kitsch culture. How do these influences help you explore themes of femininity and identity?

I use these aesthetics to reclaim softness and sentimentality. Fairy tales and retro visuals often carry coded messages about gender roles. I like to twist or subvert them, layering sweetness with discomfort, joy with eeriness. It lets me question how identity is constructed through fantasy, and how we might rewrite it.

Ambre Iperti Vukmirovic | The pain

How do personal memory and cultural nostalgia shape the emotional landscapes you create?

My work is fueled by a longing for places that never quite existed a hybrid of childhood memory and collective nostalgia. I build environments that echo blanket forts, sleepovers, or old cartoons, but with something a little unsettling underneath. It’s about the fragility of comfort, and how memory always comes with distortion.

In your installations, you often use tactile materials like papier-mâché and soft sculpture. What draws you to these hand-made elements?

They feel alive. Imperfection, visible seams, and softness make the work more human. These materials speak to care and time. They remind me of play, of childhood craft projects. I like that tension between innocence and grotesque, between something lovingly made and emotionally raw.

Ambre Iperti Vukmirovic | Shell

Your environments invite viewers into introspection and emotional release. What do you hope audiences feel or take away from your work?

I hope they feel held like they’ve entered a space where they can safely unravel a little. If someone leaves feeling nostalgic, or quietly seen, or even just more in touch with their own interior world, then the work has done its job.