"Secret Apprenticeship"

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Name: "Secret Apprenticeship"

Author: Vesna Zednik

Country: Croatia

Year: 2018

Technique: Art photography, colour on paper, edition 1/3

Size (W-H): 70 × 100 cm

Price: 1.125,00€

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About the artwork

“Secret aprenticeship”
A photograph from the solo exhibition “Noise” (Zagreb 2018). The title of the exhibition refers to a twofold meaning of the word “noise” – in terms of language (communication noise) as well as photography (visual noise), where noise represents a random variation of irregular light or colour elements.
Every day we find ourselves trying to explain our experiences or thoughts to other people. Most times we realize that, no matter how hard we try, we don’t quite manage to transfer our feelings and thoughts to others. There are different reasons for that: the other person sometimes relates our words to a different experience, puts them in a different context, or simply some external circumstances interfere with our communication. Whatever the reason, communication leads only to partial understanding between people. In that sense, the photograph utilizes visual noise “to talk about” covertness found in all kinds of communication.
The person in the photograph conveys a message, an emotion. And the viewer, due to the interference which impaires complete transparency, receives the message only partly, differently, covertly or even inaccurately. The title of the photograph should be interpreted in the same manner. This interference or noise appears in a form of a membrane placed between the camera and the model. In this way, the shared experience found in communication is interpreted through the medium of photography.
The photography was also exhibited at the Chania Photo Festival (Crete 2020).
The model in the photography is the young Anamarija Marković, the member of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

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Through her work, Vesna Zednik strives to bring forth what easily escapes notice: a shadow cast, an expression held, a form implied

Vesna Zednik was born in 1972. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. In her works, she focuses on details that bring a personal relationship to the photographed objects in photography. With her photographs, she predominantly thematizes the human body, studying primarily the face, hands and movement. Zednik was noticed at the international exhibition of the 37th Zagreb Salon in 2016. Since then, her photographs have been published on book covers, record and CD covers, in magazines. She exhibits at Croatian and international exhibitions. Her photographs have been included in the Croatian monographs "Duration in Time", Zagreb 2018 and Portrait of Croatia 2020. Zednik has received praise and awards for her works, among which the most important are the Grand Prix Fernando Soprano (Rijeka, 2018) and the Award for the best photographic portrait taken by an author from Croatia (Zagreb 2019). She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts and the Croatian Association of Visual Artists

Solo exhibitions:
NOISE, 2018 - Gallery of the Europe House Zagreb; Gallery of the City Cultural Center Metković
PERSONAE GRATAE, 2018 - Mimara Museum, Zagreb; Kortil Gallery, Rijeka; Museum of the City of Split; Art Gallery of the Križevci City Museum; Zabok City Library Gallery

Group exhibitions:
37th Zagreb Salon (International Exhibition of Photography, 2016)
Biennale Internazionale Donna (Associazione culturale porto arte, Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste 2017); Monochrome, (Blank Wall Gallery, Athens 2018);
6th Salon of Black and White Photography 100+1 (Photo Club Color Rijeka, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka 2018);
The 8th International photo contest 4383 Days of Childhood (Gallery Minsk 2018.);
5th Fine Art Photography Award, 2019.
Portrait 2020. (Croatian Photography Centre, Mimara, Zagreb 2020);
Silence, a curated international photography exhibition (PH21 Photography Gallery, Budapest 2020);
3rd Chania International Photo Festival (Blank Wall/Gallery, Grand Arsenali, Chania, Crete 2020).