LUDOVICO ELIA PERSIC (IT) AND ANA TRAJKOVSKA (MK) SELECTED FOR THE RESIDENCE PROGRAM IN SKOPJE (NORTH MACEDONIA)
We are pleased to announce that the Curatorial team in te CreArt partner cityty, Skopje has selected the following artists for the upcoming Residence Program in the Cultural Information Center:
- Ludovico Elia Persić from Venice, Italy
- Ana Trajkovska from Skopje, Macedonia
CONGRATULATIONS!
ANA TRAJKOVSKA
Ana Trajkovska was born in 1995 in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Master's degree at the faculty of Fine arts in Skopje with the mentor prof. Zoran Jakimovski,
printmaking department.
EDUCATION
• Graphic design training conducted by Neting dooel – Skopje, 2023.
• Pedagogical additional qualification at the St. Kliment Ohridski Faculty of Pedagogy - Skopje, 2023.
• Master's degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts, graphics district - Skopje ( 2019 – 2021 )
• Faculty of Fine Arts - Skopje (2014 - 2018)
• DSULUD "Lazar Lichenoski" - Skopje (2010-2014)
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
• 7th International Art Open Air 2024 in Poland, Czaplinek
• Art Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey at the Macedonian Cultural center – 2024
• Art Symposium in Bolu, Turkey , 2024.
• Art residency at the Cité in Paris, approved through the Ministry of Culture 03.08 to 28.08 2023
• Stay in Vienna through Cultart academy, from 19.01 to 25.01.2023
• From the 24th to the 31st of July, she participates in the Feminist Art Colony in Serbia in Sićevo in Niš.
• From May 3 to May 18, 2022, she participates in the international residency "Rise of women" in Zadar, Croatia.
LUDOVICO ELIA PERSIC
am a 23-year-old visual artist. My practice develops through various traditional mediums—etching, charcoal, oil painting, oil pastels, and watercolor—which I use to explore primarily two recurring themes: the self-portrait and the coffee pot. In my self-portraits, I investigate the face as a place of reflection and self-confrontation. I am deeply interested in the power that resides within emotions: their power to transform the gaze, to distort the perception of reality, to reveal unspoken content. In this context, I explore caricature as a means of expression: I accentuate and distort features and expressions to amplify internal tensions, conflicting moods, and nascent ideas. It is a work in which I combine self-analysis, irony, and observation of my body as a narrative surface. A central theme of my work is the modern conception of identity, as Western culture has developed it since the modern age: the idea of a stable, coherent, and autonomous individual. 2 However, as Zygmunt Bauman observes, in the era of "liquid modernity," identity is no longer a given, but an uncertain task: something we must constantly construct, modify, and perform. It has become fluid, unstable, subject to fragmentation and performance.
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