Premio Combat Prize

Description of an artwork:
This artwork is part of series ”About the bricks”. Bricks as a symbol of the society are very often used in my works from the beginning. What is interesting in this symbol is the ambiguity in the possibilities of interpretations that bricks can give us as a wall or as a construction. As a wall it could be seen also as an obstacle, something like barrier or sign of limit or separation in life. In this case we may see it as negative, but alternatively they can be seen as a construction and therefore more positive and creative. However, we people are all these bricks and together we create a wall or a construction. So, the question here could be: do we care enough about how strong and good bricks are we?
This particular artwork called ”Always looking for...” symbolically presents people and their life-styles in our society. We are always looking for something and this is actually the engine that keep us going on in our lives. Always looking for… But for what? I think this question is related to our life-style where we consume even if we don´t really need anything. We don’t understand our need to consume and to possess. It is all the same with different needs: to possess material things or intellectual powers, economical or spiritual… We are always looking for more, for something else…
Short biography:
After finishing A-level equivalent in Humanities at High School in Maribor (Slovenia 2003), I lived one year in Barcelona where I was involved with exhibitions, concerts and performances in the socio-cultural center that encouraged free expression of the young and rebellious.
In 2004 I went to live in Italy where I finished BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, in Visual Arts and disciplines of spectacle in 2007 and then I continued with graduating in MFA (Master of Fine Arts), which I finished then in Venice 2011.
I have now lived in Berlin since 2009 when was born my daughter and where I continue to create paintings and collages, sculptures and installations, performances, happenings and movies. As well as I am getting involved with art exhibitions, art fairs, talks about art and workshops with children. In 2013 I start working on my first long length movie with the thematic about the society we live in and values in this society with the title: “Just because love here is not enough?”