Dušan Ristić
Two figures on a hilltop under a storm sky — one in a Palestinian keffiyeh and embroidered thobe, one in a Jewish tallit — while two children wash their hands together in a muddy pool between them.

The project · 2025–ongoing

My Beautiful People

Invoking dialogue, understanding, and peace.

I'm a Roma artist — from a stateless nation that has never gone to war. I make paintings, photographs, and performances about what conflict is, and about what the people inside it still share.

A boy in black drapes a keffiyeh over a seated woman while children in white veils look on, under storm cloudsA boy in black moves with outstretched hands beside a seated figure veiled in a keffiyeh, under a storm sky

Selected work

Global Warming — a photographic work, 2007 Cat with Women — a figurative oil painting Home — a vivid watercolor

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A full-length figure wrapped in a tallit over a Palestinian thobe, blindfolded A blindfolded figure in tallit and thobe, face turned upward
My Beautiful Peopletwo sides, one line · 2025

The current project

My Beautiful People is open.

Artists, writers, dancers, musicians, visionaries — there's a place in it for you.

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