According to Freud, Eros and Thanatos are basic human instincts of love and death. The topic is the area of instinctive reactions. On one side Thanatos is destructive, often self-destructive, deadly immortal, representing death that cannot be avoided nor killed (we have testimonies of that in all kinds of barbaric aggressions). On the other side Eros, instinct of love, creation of life energy and sexuality is self-sufficient.
Intimate, despite the fact that it absorbs all human relationships in its core, human sexuality is private. Sublimated, through action and reaction embedded in culture, blossoms and grows into poetry, dance, music, art... Culture defends itself from inconvenience and discomfort with taboo, censorship and auto-censorship, and occasionally with repression.
Maja Vrban, by her vocation graphic, reflects essence of her work with this exact dual polarities: day-night, visual-tangible, dark-light, inserted-bulging, smooth- rough, in rounded creations of her instinct, behind which always in the dark corner lies its opposite side.
It seems that the whole universe, birth, life and death, is intertwined with such polarities. Cycle Erosis best experienced when compared with the sketches for sculptural objects, where the type of sexuality that the artist transmits and reflects is clearly shown. As if one would find himself in front of prehistoric curves that even when abstracted indicate the basic sexuality evoked bysteatopygius emphasizing the attributes of fertility shown as huge buttocks. By this, the artist indicated fertility, which from beginning of the time means also birth: the essence and strenght of instinct of love. 
Maja Vrban projects that in robust proportions on object rounded by dimension and motive, noticeable in two toned variations of black and beige, intertwined with pulsating forces stretched across the energetic arabesques, that seem as if they had instinctive energy that moves as the blood runs in the veins. Eros is shown naked, rough, even brutal, how he actually, behind all the cultural blockades, boundaries and layers and taboos, in the evolution of life and universe, actually is. 

Željko Marciuš

 According to Freud, Eros and Thanatos are basic human instincts of love and death. The topic is the area of instinctive reactions. On one side Thanatos is destructive, often self-destructive, deadly immortal, representing death that cannot be avoided nor killed (we have testimonies of that in all kinds of barbaric aggressions). On the other side Eros, instinct of love, creation of life energy and sexuality is self-sufficient.
Intimate, despite the fact that it absorbs all human relationships in its core, human sexuality is private. Sublimated, through action and reaction embedded in culture, blossoms and grows into poetry, dance, music, art... Culture defends itself from inconvenience and discomfort with taboo, censorship and auto-censorship, and occasionally with repression.
Maja Vrban, by her vocation graphic, reflects essence of her work with this exact dual polarities: day-night, visual-tangible, dark-light, inserted-bulging, smooth- rough, in rounded creations of her instinct, behind which always in the dark corner lies its opposite side.
It seems that the whole universe, birth, life and death, is intertwined with such polarities. Cycle Erosis best experienced when compared with the sketches for sculptural objects, where the type of sexuality that the artist transmits and reflects is clearly shown. As if one would find himself in front of prehistoric curves that even when abstracted indicate the basic sexuality evoked bysteatopygius emphasizing the attributes of fertility shown as huge buttocks. By this, the artist indicated fertility, which from beginning of the time means also birth: the essence and strenght of instinct of love. 
Maja Vrban projects that in robust proportions on object rounded by dimension and motive, noticeable in two toned variations of black and beige, intertwined with pulsating forces stretched across the energetic arabesques, that seem as if they had instinctive energy that moves as the blood runs in the veins. Eros is shown naked, rough, even brutal, how he actually, behind all the cultural blockades, boundaries and layers and taboos, in the evolution of life and universe, actually is. 

Željko Marciuš