Artists

"Vesna’s femininity comes through in a different way. Again female figures are the focus but Vesna transforms them into something less clear cut. Her faces are surrounded by shapes that echo machination and mechanics. ‘I love seeing little machineries and functions being connected with uncountable tubes and cables, creating one complete system. It’s a lot like society or a single human body. Cables can resemble veins and blood vessels,’ she notes. Her fusion of the organic and the industrial is aimed to ‘reflect how human beings are moving away from nature slowly changing shape through all the technology that surrounds us.’ The results are figurative and abstract in the same time. ‘The abstract shapes usually resemble things that aren´t visible for the eye but have a strong impact on us- it can be some sort of sensation or even sounds. I like to distort figures up to the point where you cannot really tell anymore if it´s a human body, but rather looks like a landscape,’ she points out. Born in Japan, raised in Germany and trained in London (where she studied printmaking), her work feels both eastern and western."

Written by Francesca Gavin for Attention Spam exhibition catalogue