Ksenija Čerče

Beckett's Forehead

2011-2015, forbidden technics, 240 x 190 cm

Čerče creates her paintings by deconstructing the original image of the motif to the point where it becomes unrecognizable, and then structures the painting by layering diverse and heterogeneous strata of material (the support, paint, writing, impressions) and meaning. In this way new images emerge, vague in meaning, often combined with writing and anchored in the painting’s textile support, which – forming a fundamental “premise” of her works – connect her art with the reflection on the female pole of creativity (in painting). In some works this is even the explicit subject, e.g. Who is Afraid of Pink.

Ksenija Čerče (1969) graduated (1999) and finished her Master’s degree in painting (2002) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Prior to that, between 1988 and 1996, she completed the studies of Design of Fashion and Textiles at the Faculty of Science and Technology (FNT TT). In 2003 she won a Fulbright Scholarship for further studies in the USA, where she completed a Master’s degree in Video and Sound Art (under Liz Phillips) at Purchase College, State University of New York. In 2007–2011 she was an active member of Cirkulacija 2. She works in the areas of both painting, and sound and video art, where her work is focused on researching elementary themes: the phenomenology of materiality, experiences of the relationships between visual and auditory perceptions and, above all, the nature of the multi-layer interdependency of the media, with which they are expressed.

She is employed as an assistant professor in the area of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. Web: http://ksenijacerce.kibla.org/