What is under your mask...

    Sara is a young graduated Slovenian artist.
"What is under your mask" will be the first in a series of exhibitions which will present illustrations. It's also the first exhibition of the artist. She studied art pedagogy at the faculty of Maribor. She presents her illustrations which is the most important in her work. She works only in black and white with ink or with pens. Her illustrations include images of people and animals. We can recognize her family or some of famous people who are in our occidental culture.
    She is inspired by fashion illustrations and by characters from cartoons. We can notice that all the characters have the large eyes. It's a distincive sign of the artist. She also works with text and uses it with humorous. Her illustrations are as the same time for an adult public: there is a critical view, she appropriates the characters and she shows us them under her point of view. She also uses cynicism. And young people are also touched by the characters like Batman, or Harry Potter.
    In her project with the small suitcase "What is under your mask" it is a critical against people we know because they are famous or because they are just in news paper but who are they in reality ? Do we know them for real ? She invites public to hide faces of people on news papers put on the wall of the gallery.  She has already created buffers for this project. Buffers represent masks known, as: Hannibal, Pussy riot, Scream...

What i like in her work c'est qu'elle s'intéresse aux nouvelles icônes de notre génération à la manière d'un enfant. Elle utilise des techniques plutôt simples mais qui cachent un réel engagement de vouloir faire tomber les masques. De son point de vue elle revisite les images classiques contemporaines qui font échos à notre culture de l'image. Ce travail à la fois personnel, (on reconnait ses soeurs et ses amis) divulgue un imaginaire qui peut être entendu et interpréter par toutes les générations.

Jade