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Tea Tokyo visual artist
Tea Tokyo (1991) is a pseudonym for Dorotea Culjkovic. Tokyo, who is currently enrolled as a student in a Bachelor of Business Administration program located in Paris, France, also spends her time working as a visual artist. Based out of Paris, Tokyo is working on two new projects “SVP” and “Social norms!” Besides being an artist, Tokyo is actively involved in newly formed Art Foundation called "Phat Pack" along with Alexandre Arnault, Romain Peugeot, Oleg Guerrand-Hermes and Florian Ruiz Picasso.

Tea Tokyo expresses her personality and opinions through her artwork, which reflect her emotions and beliefs at that specific period in time.

Most of Tokyo’s works are Installations and sculptures. The value of each idea and message is hidden behind the actual work, and the technique and medium reflect and support that idea. Her inspirations come spontaneously from segments, images, or events from her daily activities and schedule. The aim is to provoke the audience and make them think about the work further, in order to try to find the underlying message. The philosophy is “less is more”, meaning, the less you understand artwork at a glance, the more powerful the underlying message is.

Conceptual art is the most precise art of all; it does not allow for mistakes or improvisation. What Tokyo likes the most about conceptual art, is that everything – technique, material, the theme, and colors- is carefully and precisely picked to support the underlying idea.

In her first exhibition at “Strategie Art” gallery in Belgrade, April 2010, she exposed around twenty original works, mainly sculptures and installations. After which, Tokyo was invited by board member of BJCEM, Nina Mudrinic, to participate in the next Biennale des Jeunes Createurs de l’Europe.

Tokyo reveals for IDOLL magazine (NY) that she found herself in visual art thanks to her mentor, Natasa Skoric, who taught her art class at the International School of Belgrade (the last school that Tokyo graduated from).Tokyo states “I always thought that I would become a business-woman, but over the past two years I have realized my true area of interest: Art”. She recounts that, “art was never an option before, because people bothered me since I was little by saying that I would follow my mum’s footsteps and become an actress. In the end, I enrolled in Business school but I have decided to continue to follow my passion in making conceptual art on the side”.

www.teatokyo.com www.phatpack.org