Snežana Petrović's painting belongs to the realm of dreamlike and fantastical art. Throughout her artistic practice in oil painting, drawing, and printmaking, she has managed to create a unique visual myth populated by unreal girls, harlequins, magicians, marionettes, and great mime artists—witnesses to the fleeting and fragile nature of human existence. This is a form of painting that, using the conventional methods of traditional figurative art (trompe l'oeil), provides an illusion of temporality and spatiality. Snežana's scenes are presented to the viewer, someone of sensitive spiritual and emotional composition, in a state of forgottenness and hypnosis. Frozen in a cataleptic state between dream and reality, between literary description and pure visual art. The pictorial field is built on a surprising yet highly thoughtful arrangement of figures, where the space in her paintings is more perceived as a metaphysical embodiment than as concrete reality.
umetničkog bavljenja uljanom slikom, crtežom i grafikom, ova umetnica je uspela da stvori
jedan samorodan vizuelni mit nestvarnih devojčica, harlekina, mađioničara, marioneta i
velikih umetnika pantomime, kao svedoka prolaznosti i trošnosti ljudskog bića. U pitanju je
slikarstvo koje konvencionalnim sredstvima tradicionalne figuralne umetnosti (trompe l’ oeil)
pruža iluziju vremenitosti i prostornosti. Snežanini prizori predočeni su posmatraču osetljivog duhovnog i duševnog sastava u nekom stanju zaboravljenosti i hipnotičnosti. Zamrznuti u jednom kataleptičnom stanju između sna i stvarnosti, između literarno deskriptivnog i čisto likovnog. Slikarsko polje izgrađeno je na začudnom, ali veoma promišljenom raspoređenju figura, pri čemu prostor na njenoj slici više
doživljavamo kao metafizičko otelovljenje, nego kao konkretnu realnost.
Dragan Jovanović Danilov ( deo teksta iz kataloga)