When We Danced to Socialism 2 Painting

Klaudija Cermak (born: Rijeka, Croatia), has been living and working as a VFX artist in London since 1984. Her credits include Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Black Mirror as well as numerous commercials for major brands. I started painting at the end of 2013 to escape, to archive and to rebel. My work ranges from dreamy landscapes filled with nostalgia and melancholy to conceptual art that is concerned with human condition. They are either a refuge from or a battle against the post-modern life. The raw, seemingly unfinished and often minimalist multimedia pieces, created in the night after work, reflect a sense of urgency to tell the story of the unseen and, increasingly, untold, while also being an escape from the immaculate, photorealistic and perfectly polished digital artworks of my day job. There is an avalanche of both fictional and experiential universe that has started to emerge bit by bit like jigsaw pieces that are slowly forming a confident body of work that rejects global cultural narratives. I don’t create detailed layouts or make plans when creating. I have themes in my head that are completely emotion driven and I never know which theme will emerge. When I feel rebellious conceptual work emerges, when I feel melancholic the landscapes emerge, when I am distressed the patterns emerge, when I am nostalgic the childhood images emerge. Whatever the images, I hope them to be either emotion or thought provoking, preferably both.