Šejma Fere       Artist Statement


Šejma Fere is a visual artist, painter and printmaker, whose practice explores the mechanisms of contemporary visual culture, image economies, and the construction of meaning. In a state of information overabundance, she acts as an "artist-archaeologist," collecting fragments from mass media, bureaucracy, and everyday life, transforming them into new narrative systems. Her work spans ambient installations, drawing, and collage, often interwoven with themes of feminism, material ecology, and the poetics of reuse. Through manual labor and the deconstruction of archives, Šejma examines the relationship between individual memory and collective spectacle, treating art as an open process of constant interpretation and resistance. She lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.


Šejma Fere je vizuelna umetnica, slikarka i grafičarka, čija praksa istražuje mehanizme savremene vizuelne kulture, ekonomiju slika i konstrukciju značenja. U stanju preobilja informacija, ona deluje kao „umetnik-arheolog” koji sakuplja fragmente iz masovnih medija, birokratije i svakodnevice, transformišući ih u nove narativne sisteme. Njen rad obuhvata ambijentalne instalacije, crtež i kolaž, često prožet temama feminizma, ekologije materijala i poetike ponovne upotrebe. Kroz manuelni rad i dekonstrukciju arhive, Šejma preispituje odnos između individualnog sećanja i kolektivnog spektakla, tretirajući umetnost kao otvoren proces stalne interpretacije i otpora. Živi i stvara u Beogradu.

 

 

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photos from artist's studio / atelier / atelje

 

Artworks:

  • Translation Services: o birokratiji, manuelnom radu i "siromašnoj slici" / about bureaucracy, manual labor, and the "poor image"
  • I saw unseen: o apsurdnoj turističkoj agenciji i aproprijaciji /  an absurd travel agency and appropriation
  • Playground: o igri, reciklaži i feminizmu / about play, recycling, and feminism
  • Snaps:  saradnje i "vizuelne partiture" / collaboration and "visual scores"