Mazej Urška – Collide

Urška was Born in SlovenjGradec, Slovenia, in 1988. After completing the Comprehensive School of Arts in Velenje, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana to study painting in 2007. As a student, she already exhibited her work at important international shows, such as the 15th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Belgrade, Transform – European Biennial of Fine Arts Academies in Sofia, and afterwards continued to exhibit at numerous jury exhibitions, individual and group ones, receiving several awards for her work. Urška also works in set design and is a co-founder of the arts association Koncentrat. Her creativity is spurred by the contemporary world that surrounds her and by the exposure to excessive quantities of information and images that, unfortunately, feed our emotions as we become numbed by the world of media and technological progress. For that reason, her paintings are collages that bring together various elements into new visual wholes, while at the same time they are being marked by clear cuts. Tom out, extracted from their original environments – magazines, advertisement brochures or posters – and placed in new contexts, they create immediate and interesting visual effects and an identity of a new reality that is an image of the real or of the author’s imagined space. Her artistic practice reveals an unquestionable love for the material and the experiments the material facilitates, a need for dialogue with the self, a search for one’s own identity and new sensations in the field of painting