Blending personal and cultural mythologies, Rakovic explores the lived experience between memory, history, affect, and subjectivity. By combining the visual lexicon of her youth spent surfing Tumblr, Youtube, and Deviantart with the faraway stories of her refugee family, Rakovic encapsulates the strange, dislocated experience of living as a second-generation immigrant from Yugoslavia, a country which no longer exists – and a history which few in the west remember.

As the absence of her parents’ country haunts her like a phantom, Rakovic’s imagery harnesses the absurd and the kitsch in an attempt to grapple with displacement, loss, and homesickness with no home.