Jelena Savić

Jelena Savić, a Belgrade-born artivist of Roma origin is pursuing a PhD in digital humanities at Uppsala University’s Centre for Gender Research. She holds an MA in philosophy from Central European University, Budapest and a BA in Adult Education from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Her artwork spans poetry, performance, digital illustrations, and comic books, influenced by feminist and critical theory, coloniality/modernity world system theory, Afropessimism, whiteness, and critical race theory challenges non-Roma supremacy and canonical representations of Roma subjectivity.
In 2024, she performed Double Nobodies and contributed visuals to Unveiling Memories at Kai Dikhas Foundation in Berlin. Her visuals and comic books are also featured in Consent Not to Be an Individual Entity at Hammarkullen Art Gallery, Gothenburg. In 2022, she participated with her poetry in Kafana Lab programme at Grüner Salon of Volksbühne theater, and performed Draw a Roma Woman: The Politics of Emotion Under the European Gadjo Supremacy at the ACUD MACHT NEU cultural centre in Berlin. Her poems are published in the spring 2023 edition of Packingtown Review and in the anthology Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry (2016). Her early poetry collection, Explosive Particles (2004), was published by The Matica srpska. She also shares her poetry at usernamekaspoetry.wordpress.com.