About
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Irena Pejčić was born 1989 in Doboj (Bosnia-Herzegovina). She currently lives and works in Vienna (Austria).
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Artist Statement
Irena Pejčić portrays intimacies. The artist depicts stories about the fragile, irretrievable, past.
Her working method is the Body Art. The representation of the body as an art medium or object. It is placed spatially and sculpturally at the centre. The result is a reversal of perspective that challenges the viewer.
The works are united by a performative style. This nuance characterises Pejčić’s handwriting and thus creates a recognition value. She works primarily with plaster in order to thematise the broken. The resulting sculptures confront realities.
Pejčić was born in Yugoslavia, now Bosnia-Herzegovina. She came to Austria as a two-year-old child. Growing up between these social antagonisms, a country scarred by war and a safe country, had a huge impact on her work.