Following her artistic path, which represents the traditional and the contemporary, mixing these two different paths, she creates this new cycle entitled Decoding color. Generally she works in a wide range of materials. And this cycle shows more play of material. In her work, the artist used raw color with the full potential of bright color and an ornament-like motif as a starting point for the discourse between East and West. She tries to capture the raw nature of the color in the form of a line and precisely in this motif. Ornament, as a feature of Eastern art, is used because of its simplicity, but also because of the beauty of its shape. The colors used in her works of art are vulnerable, open, protected, they need to be defined. If we look at Western art history at one point, color and pigment were used to move beyond the ideas of artistic representation. The focus was on immateriality and the infinite. But on the other hand, Eastern art is focused on line and decoration to express the spiritual, the immaterial. Her practice has revealed a new way of conceptualizing two different states of reality and spirituality.
Azra Hamzagić was born in Novi Pazar, Republic of Serbia in 1985. She studied art at the Academy of Art in Sarajevo and in 2008 became a Professor of Art Education. 2013 she got her MHd diploma in painting. Currently a PhD candidate at Faculty of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. She is working like professor of drawing at the International University in Novi Pazar. She is organizing and producing localy and internationally based projects, exhibitions and workshops.