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Jerca Šuštar is a young artist who experiments in her work and connects the field of drawing with painting and graphics. In her works, we follow repetitive patterns, no doubt creating an unconscious rhythm, which in the wider context of fine art represents one of the fundamental principles.

Jerca Šuštar (2000, Kranj) completed her undergraduate studies in art pedagogy at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana in 2024 under the mentorship of Professor Anja Jerčič Jakob. In her artistic creation, she explores and interweaves the fields of graphics, painting and ceramics. In 2024, she upgraded her knowledge in the field of ceramics during a study internship in Berlin (atelier Barsega Studio Gallery). Jerca Šuštar is also involved in running art workshops, as part of pedagogical activities she cooperates with the International Graphic Art Center, the Domžale Gallery and the Nič Art School. She has presented her work several times in group exhibitions, and in the View Gallery she is presenting herself for the first time. She is currently studying for a master’s degree at the Faculty of Education.

In her exploration of the art field, Jerca Šuštar uses samples of pure artistic elements – circle, line, square. In some places, it is a repetition of the same basic pattern, which changes in its interior, thus creating a double movement, a flickering, as if we were staring at microscopically enlarged tissue cells, the fibers of an unknown living organism. The movement of individual particles is involuntarily unfolding before our eyes, created by floating particles within the individual basic form. In the second part, the painter limits the movement by inserting a circle into a square – the movement is slow, created by darker and lighter colored squares, mainly in the direction inward and outward, concave/convex. Conscious creation takes place at the level of expectation, but at the same time the opportunity of spontaneity is offered, when the hand is just creating, continuing the pattern, as if entering a meditative state.