“The video work “The favored” unfolds as a series of sequences in which the artist crochets milieu in different locations in Belgrade. For his action, Nikola chooses spaces of traditional expression and glorification of masculinity: tribunes, football stadium field, construction sites, weapons in front of the Military Museum, as well as a priory with a concrete wall filled with graffiti.
So behind Dimitrovic’s back we read the inscription “national hero”, and that detail offers the key to understanding the work itself. A man, and men are In the Balkan social code recognized as “merciless heroes”, he vacates the typically female action of crocheting milieu in an attempt to open up the possibility for dialogue about gender stereotypes.”