Djuro Selec

Artist's statement

My work portrays how technology molds our perception of time, nature and oneself. I've been a painter ever since my first mural kept reappearing on the living room wall of my parents house in mid '80s Croatia. Now, in a continuation of over a decade of digital design work in the tech sector, I aim to convey a visual sensory overload born out of technoculture. With a variety of artistic influences such as Laura Owens, my paint application mimics a graphic software one, layering web-inspired grids and gradients in anachronistic layers, achieving a visual interference on the painting surface.

Following the trail of Hito Steyerl and Legacy Russel’s writing, I celebrate the glitch as an agent of resistance to the machine and a signifier of humanlike technology. The glitch gently commands our attention, and wakes us up. As digital distortions compromise the materiality of canvas, I invite the viewer into such a waking opportunity.

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