Core: Silkscreen Prints and Collagraphs
Artist: Irena Pejovic
Print Mediums:Silkscreen and Collagraph

Papers:Somerset Satin White; BFK Rives White; Chinese Rice Paper
Dimensions: 58" x 43.75"; 43.75" x 29"; "30" x 40"; 29" x70"
All works 2012 Irena Pejovic

ABOUT CORE
This series of works began with rapid-fire drawings the artist made on-site, at the rehearsal space of Brooklyn-based dance troupe "KoreResponse" in early 2012. After being privy to numerous rehearsals, Pejovic transmitted the drawings into a wide variety of printmaking techniques and materials, finally arriving at the works you see here on papers that are both opaque (BFK Rives) and see-through (rice paper). Some of the works consist of single images viewed in series; others are comprised of many translucent layers. Taken as a whole they transmit a sense of intense compression and bound-up energy. And yet, they seem lighter than air.

Dancers are by and large more disciplined 'movers' than the rest of us; as they move their musculature becomes little more than line to our eye, a memory of the trajectory of their path. Pejovic translates that trajectory into the language of line and form, often compressing her shapes so highly that they dominate the entire page. They fold in and upon themselves intensely, and at times read more like abstracted creatures than humans -- bears, cats, rodents; whirlwinds of arms and legs.

Ask yourself: What might a single being (itself the result of so many coiled lines of movement) be seeking as it folds down so far into itself? What might it be finding as it seeks its core?

The same thing that all dancers (and artists) strive for: artistic rigor, a honing of self and craft, but most importantly, to put that discipline in service of beauty, freedom, release.

Memory - Impression and Imprint
Artists: Ana Sladetic (Croatia) and Irena Kojkova Pejovic (Macedonia/US)
Next Exhitbition: 2013, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
DOWNLOAD PDF Proposal Here

BRIEF DESCTRIPTION:

Between Impression and Imprint

Memory as a concept, is something from the past, seen and remembered. We think of Memory as a Visual Experience, but rarely remember it’s physical form. In this exhibition proposal, two artists, Ana Sladetic and Irena K. Pejovic, present Memory in it’s physical form.

The work of Ana Sladetic includes a video and work on paper, which speaks about Memory as a transformation from mental and visual to a physical experience. Ana preserves the “memory” of a place, in this case, the Great Wall of China by making Monoprints and taking imprints from the wall, which traditionally would have been done by taking a photo of the Great Wall.

Irena K. Pejovic’s work, Fine Clutter, consists of Monoprints where, Hair, an untraditional printmaking medium is used, to make Monoprints on Rice Paper. By tearing parts of the paper and printing two prints at once, one print becomes a memory – imprint of the first one, and as she makes more prints, it becomes a clutter of memory - individual experiences from print to print. Ghost print of one print, splits one memory and creates a new moment/object. Chine Colle is used, and then removed to present the memory of the chine colle on the base paper. During the printing process, the Hair as we remember it, changes and it loses it’s structure and becomes a new medium that becomes the memory of the Hair in it’s present form.

In both artists’ work, the object and the memory of it, is preserved as is, in it’s pure organic form, unedited and raw, with minimal control and manipulation by the person (artist) experiencing the event.