Vitomirka Trebovac

My name is Vitomirka Trebovac, and I am a poet. I would like to use my time at the Saari Residence to continue working on my upcoming poetry collection and to further explore my personal research on “Delaying Time.” I am particularly interested in how to access deep time— how to feel the time that passes, not the time that flies. In my poetry, I explore themes of nature and its influence on time, as well as the experience of time’s passage.
Living in the city amidst its constant hustle and bustle, I find these topics both challenging and inspiring. The poetry collection I am preparing primarily addresses this subject.

I seek to explore how nature can help us slow down time. How can we use nature as a tool—a mechanism through which we can decelerate time and reconnect with its essence? I am focused on a transformation that occurs on a deep, internal level—one that may not be visible on the outside but represents the only true change: a change within ourselves. I believe that this transformation is possible only if we disconnect from daily distractions, communication, and excess information. This detachment also provides us with the strength and motivation to transform the society that surrounds us.

Vitomirka Trebovac was born in Novi Sad, 1980. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and for a while she worked as a teacher. Now she is employed in the bookstore and the publishing house “Bulevar Books” as an editor. She has written four books of poetry, and her poetry has been translated into many European languages (English, German, Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Polish, Russian). Her books have been translated into Hungarian and Macedonian.

She is co-editor of the poetry book “This is not a home, poets about migration”, editor of the book “Novi Sad Neo-Avant-Garde / a selection from poetry”. Vitomirka is active on the art scene as a participant in various international projects, festivals and residences (France, Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Netherlands…) She likes to participate in collaborative projects, with special attention to visual arts. As a result, she had two visual collaboration projects (Exhibition “Days of the Full Moon” and the project “Workbook”)