Andrea Knezović (1990, Zagreb, Croatia) is a visual artist. She graduated her B.A. at A.V.A-Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana. Her field of interest expands to performing arts, mixed media, video and photography.
Currently based between Ljubljana and Zagreb, Knezović’s practice is focused on exploring threshold states and ambiguities within social contexts. She uses art as an instrument for reconstructing social paradigms through imaginative visual vocabularies as well as conceptual frameworks that bear strong political references and engage questions of social identities.
Andrea Knezović’s primary approach is to play with symbolic language and intuitive narratives, while reflecting existing environments and their conditions. Emphasizing the importance of the process and its impact on material outcomes, Knezović highlights the significance of artistic rites of passage, establishing sincere communication between artwork and the spectator. Knezović deliberately invites a sentiment of indeterminacy which is translated into general atmosphere of her artistic expression.
She has exhibited in various museums and galleries in Europe.
From an intimate self-reflexive perspective to the geopolitical and socio-cultural aspect, shame is an omnipresent factor used to control, sanction and exercise rigidity in communities of all kinds. Although shame may not be something inheritable or biologically predetermined, it impacts all of us in familiar ways; we struggle with it differently, in hopes of hiding or covering our stains.
Andrea Knezovic’s residency research focuses on the exploration of intimate and self-reflective notions of shame and shame’s relation to creativity. Her research and artistic process engage various personal and socio-cultural perspectives of shame through playful methodologies and social experiments.
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