Minyon Falls 2023
Purlija’s latest body of work focuses on connection to landscape, exploring the subtle clash of feeling in crashing water and the scrubby bushland of the northern coastal area. She builds visceral surface texture through glitch and superimposition, at once an intervention of traditional landscape photography and an encounter with the multiplicity of sensation. The Fall transports us to a place of harmony with nature, it also serves as a poignant call to action.
Fade Into You 2022
In this series my desire is to reclaim the wholeness we are born with in Nature,
a symbiosis forgotten about with the progress of modernization. The figure and landscape are one, both reveling in the beauty of each other.
The landscape here is of a place imbued with body, memory and life itself.
“Landscape is not only an aesthetic category, but a site where individual and collective memories are inscribed: by destroying it, we may deprive ourselves
of our identities.”
Rosario Assunto 's Philosophy of Landscape.
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zorica purlija
Australia
https://www.zoricapurlija.com.au/s-projects-side-by-side
Zorica Purlija (b. Montenegro 1964) is a contemporary visual artist based on Gadigal land. Working predominately in photography,
Purlija’s work is based on attachment and care for the primary relationships and landscape she finds herself in. Informed by a background in graphic and digital media, her photographic practice draws on abstraction and collage to forge an ethereal reflective visual language. Recent exhibitions include Fade Into You, Portraits of Yumi and Transience.
In 2020 Purlija completed a MFA in Photo Media at UNSW Art and Design. She has been a finalist in the Gosford Art Prize (2023), the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2010, 2009, 2008), HeadOn Portrait Prize (2022), the Ravenswood Women's Art Prize (2020), the Fisher Ghost Art Award (2017), the MAMA Photography Prize (2016), the Winifred Bowness Award (2014), the Ulrick Award (2011) and the Olive Cotton Award (2009). She has exhibited in New York, Zurich and Venice.