Artist Statement
As a contemporary painter and a tech professional, Djuro aims to portray the vibrant chaos of screen culture and its impact on perception.
Her process-led paintings are a visual frenzy of imaginary electronic display glitches and misbehaving image files, all colliding on a canvas that marries the digital with the tactile.
A rebellious lack of compositional hierarchy and pictorial sense mirrors our collective dispersion of focus, and imitates the most human tendency technology demonstrates: a glitch, a mishap.
LAYERS pop-up show
london, brixton, october 2024
For one weekend only:
“You are invited to peel back the layers of this multifaceted, collective inquiry by moving through the space, peek beyond the surface, and reflect on the complex interplay between external appearances and internal truths. What will you discover? Transitory phases, signs of a metamorphosis, or the decomposition and birth of matter?”
Held in a repurposed department store close to Brixton tube station, Layers is an exhibition by the International Artist Collective UNPRIMED Collective, from Turps Art School, London.
Downstairs, The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Road, London, SW9 8FR
Friday 18 October (12-6)
Saturday 19 October (11-6)
Sunday 20 October (11-5)
Private View: 3-6pm Saturday 19 October
"Selec’s work investigates the glitch, something that is mysterious, unknowable and usually temporary
or short-lived. This transient fault is intrinsically difficult to troubleshoot and therefore hard to pin down in technological terms and life! The same can be said of the effects of uncertainty and the anxiety caused by technology and consuming media. The layers of glitch on glitch can confuse us further and thus mounts the tension and anxiety."
~ Karen Parker, Intersilient
“I find that nothing articulates virtual as well as the glitch does. Like beauty, it commands our attention, and wakes us up. We notice being plucked out of immediate reality and sucked into a virtual one.
As digital noise blurs the boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral,
I invite the viewer into such a mindful opportunity.”
~ Djuro