Welcome to a studio vistit with guest artist Marija Bjekic, March 10th, 12.00-16.00.
Marija Bjekic (Serbia) is a Visual Artist using drawing as a method to grasp and make sense of paradoxes and reality.
About the artist:
Marija Bjekic is mainly interested in reactivating and reflecting on utopian concepts and ideas of the 20th century. Her approach to this subject is in using both historical and contemporary images. Visual sources for her work are documentary photographs, film stills, project drafts, film posters and propaganda whose original context have mostly vanished. Also, private photo archives are important foundation, as they offer a glimpse into process of ad hoc memory construction. With the combination of these images the artist highlights the mechanisms through which our historic and cultural memory is formed.
Välkommen att besöka Konstepidemins gästkonstnär Marija Bjekic i gästateljé 3 i samband med Epidemilördag 10 mars. Marija Bjekic (Serbien) är bildkonstnär som utforskar teckning som metod för att få grepp om verkligheten och dess paradoxer.
About the artist:
Marija Bjekic is mainly interested in reactivating and reflecting on utopian concepts and ideas of the 20th century. Her approach to this subject is in using both historical and contemporary images. Visual sources for her work are documentary photographs, film stills, project drafts, film posters and propaganda whose original context have mostly vanished. Also, private photo archives are important foundation, as they offer a glimpse into process of ad hoc memory construction. With the combination of these images the artist highlights the mechanisms through which our historic and cultural memory is formed.