Opening of the exhibition by Ksenija Turčić
The opening of the exhibition Ksenija Turčić – (Re)construction of Invisibility will be held on Friday, October 16 at the SC Gallery, starting at 7 p.m. The exhibition will be open until October 30, on weekdays from 12 to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
From the foreword by Petra Šarin:
"We remember some people through images, others through smells. Some remain deeply inscribed in our bodies, in gestures and movements that we are not always aware of. Some of us are left with laughter scattered in our memories, of others only a few sentences that, sometimes without knowing it, we carry with us through life. All of them, in different ways, have shaped us. They have built and changed, demolished and dissolved. In front of some, we gathered, became smaller, while others expanded us, opened us to the world and, at least for a moment, set us free. Sometimes all these contradictions met in the same person.
Some loved us, others tried to do it the only way they knew. Others never even tried. We allowed some to get close to us, we built walls in front of others. Some loves we chose, others we inherited, along with their unspoken expectations, silences and unfinished sentences.
All of this built us up and broke us at the same time, often without warning. But can one even prepare for such fractures? For the moments in which the known world suddenly dissipates, and what was present until yesterday becomes the object of memory? Whose hands do we remember, whose voices do we still hear, even when silence has long come? What do we decide to take with us, and what, despite all our efforts, we never manage to leave behind? What remains of people when they are no longer there?
In her work, multimedia artist Ksenija Turčić explores the tensions between the contradictions that simultaneously inhabit human experience, their constant coexistence, mutual turmoil and the impossibility of final resolution. They emerge in the form of intrusive thoughts, fragments of paintings and fragmented memories. Using imaginative and visual procedures within the expanded field of painting, the artist squares, rearranges, blurs and collages fragments of personal history mediated by family photographs, intertwining moments of loss and longing, fear and pain, tenderness and hurt. Between what is remembered and what escapes memory, a space is created in which the past is constantly dissolved and reassembled, never taking on a final, complete form."
The brochure is available here.
BIOGRAPHY
Ksenija Turčić (Zagreb, 1963) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of Prof. Ferdinand Kulmer. In 1995, she graduated from Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, organized by the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como under the leadership of Joseph Kosuth. She works as a painter, multimedia artist, author of art installations, video installations, urban interventions. From 1988 until today, she has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions, curatorial projects and festivals in Croatia and abroad, of a competitive and invitational nature. She has won several awards and recognitions and study stays abroad. She is employed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb as a professor and mentor at the Department of Painting. She received her PhD from the same academy in 2023. She lives and works in Zagreb. Web: www.ksenijaturcic.com
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Grand Prix 20. Youth Salon in Zagreb (1988)
Award of the International Competition Artists Against Hostility to Foreigners in Graz, Austria (1993)
Award of the Mainz Art Festival, Germany (1999)
Grand Prix of the 5. Zagorje Salon in Krapina (2000)
Annual Vjesnik Award for Fine Arts Josip Račić (2001)
Solo Exhibition Award, 25. Slavonian Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek (2016)
Award of the Academy of Fine Arts for artistic, professional and scientific work in acad. year 2022/2023.
WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Location One Gallery, New York
Dante Marino Cettina Gallery, Umag
National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb