I would rather die than be uncomfortable by Dušan Stefanovski

Publisher: PrivatePrint, Ljubljana, 2019

Format: Hardcover

Edition: Edition of 500

Pages: 102

ISBN: 978-608-4838-09-8

I would rather die than be uncomfortable is an artist book by Dušan Stefanovski, consisting of forty-nine contemplative drawings of human skulls. Rooted in the artist’s background in graffiti and street practices, the drawings are executed using rollers, sprays, and brushes, merging controlled repetition with raw gesture. While the skull traditionally carries symbolic weight tied to religion, spirituality, or archaeology, Stefanovski deliberately strips it of fixed reference, positioning it instead as a ubiquitous and contemporary sign. Across the book, the skull becomes a surface for endurance, resistance, and bodily presence—less an emblem of death than a persistent marker of being uncomfortably alive.