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Studio Visit | June 2011
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Barbara Knezevic currently has a 6-month project studio at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin.
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She is not a medium specific artist but a lot of her practice is manifest through sculptural and installation works.
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In her artist’s statement Barbara says that her sculptural works consider “existence and its fleeting nature”. When I asked her about this she said that she feels this is a summary of the way she works rather than being applicable to all her sculptures, because depending on the materials she is using, there are shifts in the way she responds to them. One of her past works involved latex balloons filled with helium. In this case the work was literally fleeting or temporary as the sculpture itself was time-based. The helium seeped out of the balloons while they were in the gallery space, causing them to deflate. She feels some of her works are fleeting or unstable “in the way meaning is constructed” as opposed to being physically fleeting as the balloons were. She is always looking for the point where meaning becomes corrupted, or slips or changes in some way. She questions the existence of meaning throughout her work.
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Barbara does not necessarily have a methodology to the way she works. She says that because the materials she uses are so diverse, one thing she has learnt is that she has had to become very adaptive with new skills and techniques. From moulding leather to sewing, she says that the internet has been a great resource for her in terms of learning these kinds of practical things.
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The best way she said she could describe the way she works was by describing the process of how she arrives at the final object. When Barbara is struck by an idea she sketches it into her notebook. It starts with some rudimentary drawings, not meant to be especially aesthetic, and unfolds from there.
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June 8th, 2011 at 7:31 am
I like this blog site. It has an understated quality yet you get a unique view into the artists working space and thoughts in a particular time frame