ABOUT THE SERIESThe series of photo collages Birds of Paradise was created during the pandemic, when the artist Vanja Bućan, suddenly entrapped inside her home, began to reconsider questions pertaining to social constructions of gender, the meaning of motherhood, and the role of women in a household. Bućan’s collages show floating women in fictional environments of urban nature and abstract moments at the dining table – a consequence of long-term limitation to the kitchen space, the routine of a home and housework. At the same time, they are also a personal reflection of the role of a woman as a housekeeper and the primary carer of children.