Emilijia Kasumovic

Emilijia Kasumovic

Emilija Kasumovic is an Adelaide based artist working within drawing, sculpture and installation practice. She is fascinated by the modes of knowledge through which we come to understand our reality and place in the world, specifically relating to scientific and eastern philosophical theories concerning space and matter. Emilija constantly questions the relationship between internal and external, mind and matter, immaterial and material, and seeks the point where these seeming opposites merge. Embracing the new materialism theory, Emilija believes that matter has a life force and expression of its own which the artist is in co-creation with. Materials contain energy and have emergent properties, playing an active role in the creation of their own forms.

Being deeply interested and curious about the way we interact and engage with the world, Emilija found _this breath is not mine to keep as a platform through which contemporary issues such as cultural and social differences and environment we inhabit can be reconsidered, altered and questioned. Through almost invisible, but deeply sensory and affective materials, she searches for a potential where energy, space and matter become one with our bodies, thus connecting us to each other and the world.

Emilijia’s work has been included in several group exhibitions, most recently at Nexus Arts as part of Change Media’s ‘Unity of Oppression’ 2018 and ‘The Colony - dare to stop us’ at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre 2019. She was the recipient of Nexus Arts’ Artist in Residence program in 2019.

Click here for our 2018 collaboration with Emilijia Kasumovic.

Visit her site here: https://emilijakasumovic.wixsite.com/visualartist