A selection from the I:BICA special edition tarot deck:
This deck is a collaboration between I:BICA and A.E. Waite, Pamela Colman Smith and the Rider Company, who first published the now iconic, Rider-Waite tarot deck in 1909.
The outlines of Smith’s original designs are here combined with video stills from the series syllabary system (2023-2024) by our founder, the interdisciplinary artist, Lidija Ristić. This series is based reoccurring symbolic language found across global cultures. The four part video series used cross-cultural traditions as source material to make a collection of contemporary iconography centered on humans’ connection and dependence on nature.
Now combined with the layered symbolism of Pamela Coleman Smith’s work, we at I:BICA aim to create a new symbolic language for more equitably interconnected futures.
This deck was first printed on the occasion of our exhibition, ASTRAL/ASTRALNO, produced in partnership with Atomic Visual Support and Kula Cetinjska in Belgrade in June of 2024, when syllabary system was first exhibited.