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Ivana Mirchevska (b.1992, living and working in Skopje) is a visual artist and researcher working across moving images, text, sound and installation. Ivana’s research is drawn to topics that come from the intersection between the technologies of vision, the spatial configuration of the gaze and the body. 

Ivana’s practice and research often feeds on collaborative and learning processes with people from a variety of disciplines, practices and contexts. Taking an active role in the independent and experimental art scene in North Macedonia, Ivana is one of the co-founders and curator of the Underground is Easier to Breathe Festival- a platform for ephemeral and experimental art practices curated by Kula Collective from Skopje.

Ivana holds a BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje (2015) and MFA in Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy (2018/2019). 

Her most recent works and artistic engagements include: “Black River Sonic Ghosts: An Active Listening Sound Experiment” within the framework of “Landscapes of Anxiety”- research project produced by MoCA Skopje (2023), “Humanoid troubles“ participative art project in collaboration with KSP Centar Jadro (2022), “Medium Crevice: Alternative Set of Footholds for Ascending” at Gallery Ko-Ra, Skopje (2021) and DENES AWARD, National Gallery Multimedia Center Mala Stanica, Skopje (2022), an artist book “At an angle of 45 degrees” published by Studio Private Print, “Notes From Surfacing: At an Angle of 45 Degrees” at Studio Private Print (2021).

Her work has been shown in the context of BANG BANG Festival- LATE TO THE PARTY : MACEDONIAN PERFORMANCE ON VIDEO, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland(2022), Supernova Regeneration Festival, Denver, USA (2021); Dislocations, Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (2021); Youth Biennial Belgrade, Serbia (2021); Fuori Visioni Festival 6| Tra muro e confine-Atto I e II, Piacenza, Italy (2020-2021); The Biennial of Young Artists, MOCA- Skopje (2021) and others. 

Ivana Mirchevska is the recipient of the Denes Award for Young Visual Artist (2022) in North Macedonia.

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1 and 2: Snippet from “At an angle of 45 degrees” artist book published by Studio Private Print, Skopje 3: Still from the “Notes from surfacing: At an angle of 45 degrees” at Studio Private Print (2021) 4 Installation view from “Notes from surfacing: At an angle of 45 degrees” at Studio Private Print (2021) 5: Installation view “Medium Crevice” DENES AWARD, National Gallery Multimedia Center Mala Stanica, Skopje (2022) 6: Installation view “Medium Crevice”, Gallery Ko-Ra, Skopje (2021) 7: Installation view “Medium Crevice” DENES AWARD, National Gallery Multimedia Center Mala Stanica, Skopje (2022) 8 and 9 video stills from “Medium Crevice” (2021-2022) 10: found object from the research process of “Humanoid Troubles” (2022-23) 11. Installation view “Humanoid Trouble” KSP Centar Jadro (2022-23) 12 and 13 stills from the performance film “Humanoid Trouble” KSP Centar Jadro (2022-23)
Artist statement

Working across moving images, text and installations, my work often addresses aspects of how our visual and corporeal economy is subjected to forms of affective and political subjugation and alienation. My artistic research is drawn to topics that come from the intersection between the technologies of vision, the spatial configuration of the gaze and the body. I understand technologies of vision and visualization, as material and discursive apparatuses, that shape the contours of our political, cultural, and intimate landscape, thus intervening into the ways we think, feel, move, orient, and ultimately act.

In engaging with the cultural biases and potentials of the body and its vision, my work often plays with notions that escape fixed gender realities, subjectivity, identity, ways of relation with the other, representation and orientation. I formulate them as speculative and docu-fictional amalgams, alter egos, entities, surfaces, and angles of looking.

Having a practice that draws from the experience of time-based media, methodologically I approach images as haptic agents of affective mediations between bodies and spaces of belonging. In doing so, I deploy various analog and digital image making procedures, from collecting, appropriating, performing alongside images, texts, sound and objects. In my practice, I integrate various mediums and experimental formats, such as audiovisual essays, artists books and hybrid installations through which my work embodies human, nonhuman or more than human subjectivities and perspectives.

In my recent work, whilst engaging with the operationality and materiality of the contemporary screen, I am looking into the interconnection between affective nuances of belonging and image making practices such as concealment, masking, and orientation. By tending to my corporeal, cultural and geographical location, I am looking at the possibilities of time-based art as a tool for ecological and critical engagement with the gendered and nature-culture visual categories, inherent to patriarchal and anthropocentric visual narratives, in the face of the precarious futures and environmental crises.

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