My name is Nadežda Kirćanski and I am a visual artist, primarily educated as a sculptor. My artistic practice employs a range of media, including drawing, objects, and site-sensitive installations. Throughout my practice I aim to examine the collision of socio-political realities and contemporary language, unfolding its hidden emotional, physical, and intellectual labor. Hidden labor refers to the labor that is economically unacknowledged, implicit labor, which I treat and examine in my works as a crucial attribute of the accelerated realm of contemporary life. New realities that orbit around it, enabled partially due to accessibility of the internet, carry violent, irreversible distortions of languages, time, and space. Witnessing this time and space stretching has affected and amplified my sculptural practice but has also sharpened my focus on the importance of community and solidarity, collaborative and cohabitative practices. Accordingly, besides acting individually as a visual artist, I am often engaged in organizing workshops, residencies, collective studio practices, curatorial practices. Altogether, I consider all these activities to be equally important parts of my practice.

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