Djuro Selec
About the artist
Instagram: @djuro.art
Website: https://djuro.art/
As a contemporary painter and a tech professional, Djuro aims to portray the vibrant chaos of screen culture. Drawing inspiration from the vast expanse of the web, retrofuturist media and frustrations of the digital kind, she crafts a canvas that marries the virtual with the tactile. Her uniquely Millennial, wavering relationship with technology fuels her artistic vision with a range of experiences; from deprivation, enthusiasm, addiction and all the way to cautious consumption.
Djuro’s paintings are whimsical "digital landscapes" that bear the imprint of screens, infused with singular handcrafted touch, and marked by playful disruption. There's a rebellious lack of compositional hierarchy and pictorial sense; instead, layers collide and interact, mirroring the most human tendency tech demonstrates: a lag, a bug, a glitch.
“I find that nothing articulates virtual as well as the glitch does. Like beauty, it commands our attention, and wakes us up. We notice being plucked out of immediate reality and sucked into a virtual one. As digital noise blurs the boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral, I invite the viewer into such a mindful opportunity.
