Kumanovo, 29 January 2026 (MIA) — Jana Jakimovska's "Embroideress" exhibition of seven paintings and twenty drawings inspired by Blazhe Koneski's eponymous poem will open Friday and run through Feb. 12 at Kumanovo's Trajko Prokopiev Cultural Center.

The works are formally minimalist, featuring a reduced palette of black, red and white with accents of pink and gray as well as geometric shapes evoking both traditional embroidery and digital pixels, organizers said.

The art show is "a visual and theoretical bridge between tradition and modernity, between cultural memory and the digital present moment, between 'the female hand' and 'the male history'," according to art historian Ana Frangovska.

Jakimovska's works build on the metaphor from Koneski's poem written 70 years ago. Jakimovska radicalizes Koneski's idea by turning embroidery into a critical strategy, a tool for questioning women’s social roles, for problematizing their visibility, equality and social power, according to Frangovska.

Jana Jakimovska (b. 1981, Skopje) has a master's degree from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. Her interests include painting, digital media, graphic design, photography, illustration and public space interventions. Her latest works focus on the feminist aspect through the issues of the body, the self, sexuality and the position of women in society today. So far, she has had fifteen solo exhibitions in New York, Skopje, Belgrade, Prishtina, Kumanovo, Gevgelija and Shtip. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Germany and the USA. She works as an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Goce Delchev University in Shtip. mr/