Little stencil of Amélie was for the first time spotted on the streets of Belgrade at the end of the 2004. It was made by TKV and it marked the turn of the era. Before that graffiti were dominant form of the art on the streets of Belgrade but since then street art became more prominent and more visible in the center of the city.

Around the time when this little stencil started appearing around the streets of Belgrade we were facing some sort of a crisis that happened to the local graffiti culture. For a year or so activities of the graffiti writers diminished to the point of bare existence and once vividly painted walls in the city center were stagnant. So when TKV or The Fairy Queen, if translated from Serbian, started posting her stencils in the last couple of months of 2004 things were looking grim. That summer she was visiting Rome and she had an opportunity of seeing large scale art works made by Stan and Lex that are considered as pioneers of stencil art in Italy. She was immediately inspired to take up this form of art herself.

TKV started with this stencil but soon enough she was discovering art in general and as her knowledge grew the selection of her stencils multiplied. Before she radically changed her focus of research, her stencils were presenting Klimt’s Kiss, Munk’s The Scream, Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait, Edgar Alan Poe’s portrait and so on. She was also representing other, more contemporary, popular music and culture icons and they were all presented in very uniform and easily recognizable technique. Single-colored stencils of a relatively small scale (usually around A4 size) became synonymous of TKV until around 2005 when it became obvious that Belgrade was having a new and very vibrant stencil scene.