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SARA BEZOVŠEK
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down
March 17 —
May 20, 2023
LOCATION
RAVNIKAR GALLERY
Vošnjakova ulica 4
1000 Ljubljana
CURATOR
ETC. Curatorial Team (Ajda Ana Kocutar, Lara Mejač, Lara Reichmann)


PHOTOGRAPHER
Mario Zupanov

︎︎︎STATEMENT
            Visual artist Sara Bezovšek is researching, archiving and collaging visual references that she discovers while browsing the web and watching films and TV series. In her work she appropriates materials she finds online to create new narratives. Her focus is on what people look at and share on social media, on how visuals are transmitted around the internet, on how these visuals are influenced by different contexts and how they themselves impact people. Within the context of the postinternet paradigm, hers is a space in which online content and references are a consistent and indispensable part of the world we live in.

︎︎︎ABOUT THE ARTIST
            Sara Bezovšek (1993) is a visual artist focused on new media, experimental film and graphic design, in which she also holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, among others in Ljubljana at the Aksioma project space, Kamera in Kino Šiška, Osmo/za, sloART, DobraVaga, P74 and SCCA-Ljubljana, online in Feral File, in Maribor at Kiblix and MFRU, and in Koper at IZIS. SND has been showcased at the online biennial The Wrong Biennale and on the online platform Do Not Research. She was the recipient of the Prešeren Award for Students in 2018 and was nominated for the OHO Young Artist Award in 2022. She received the main award at the Ljubljana Short Film Festival (FeKK) for one of her short films in 2021 and the Vesna award for the best Slovenian experimental film in 2022. In 2023 she is working on a project for the research platform [permanent beta] of the Swiss gallery fotomuseum winterthur.


SARA BEZOVŠEK: Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down
            Vizualna umetnica Sara Bezovšek v svoji umetniški praksi raziskuje, shranjuje in kolažira vizualne reference, na katere naleti med brskanjem po spletu ter gledanjem filmov in televizijskih serij. Skozi apropriacijo spletnega materiala ustvarja nove narative, pri čemer jo zanima, kaj ljudje gledajo in delijo na družbenih omrežjih, kako vizualni material potuje po internetu ter kako se v različnih kontekstih spreminja in vpliva na uporabnike. V kontekstu postinternetne paradigme tako ustvarja prostor, kjer so spletne vsebine in internetne reference konsistenten in nepogrešljiv del sveta, v katerem živimo.

KRATKA BIOGRAFIJA:
            Sara Bezovšek (1993) je vizualna umetnica, ki deluje na področjih novih medijev, eksperimentalnega filma in grafičnega oblikovanja, iz katerega je tudi magistrirala na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje v Ljubljani. Sodelovala je na različnih skupinskih in samostojnih razstavah, med drugim v Ljubljani v projektnem prostoru Aksioma, galeriji Kamera v Kinu Šiška, Osmo/zi, galeriji sloART, DobriVagi, P74 in SCCA-Ljubljana, v spletni galeriji Feral File ter na festivalih Kiblix in MFRU v Mariboru ter IZIS v Kopru. Njen projekt SND je bil predstavljen na spletnem bienalu The Wrong Biennale ter na spletni platformi Do Not Research. Leta 2018 je prejela študentsko Prešernovo nagrado, leta 2022 pa je bila nominirana za nagrado skupine OHO, ki je del programa Young Artist Award. Leta 2021 je za svoj kratki film prejela glavno nagrado na festivalu FeKK, leta 2022 pa nagrado Vesna za najboljši slovenski eksperimentalni film. V letu 2023 pripravlja projekt za raziskovalno platformo [permanent beta] švicarske galerije fotomuseum winterthur.

︎︎︎INSTALLATION VIEWS