Liliana Pasalic

Liliana Pasalic is a multidisciplinary artist based in Adelaide, South Australia.

“My practice is centered around transformation and documentation of the environment. I take cues from visually exciting moments, forms, objects, nature, still life, architecture and portraiture.

It includes working across painting, tapestry, sculpture and print making, with backgound and education in industrial design. 

My work contains an intimacy and vulnerability that stems from my interest in truth, inner life and growth. I aim to often bring myself to feel joy that is born from uninhibited, spontaneous state of consciousness. There is as much seriousness as there is fun, playfulness and experiment in here. More than a social commentary I aim for my work to be about primary experience. Instead of consistency of style, I am more concerned with experimenting with styles that suit the current work I am making, to adapt to the material at hand, which might be because good design functions this way.

I am interested in the hand made, the metaphysical, mystery, ghostliness, construction, the impossible, strangeness, relationships between immaterial and matter, two dimensional and three dimensional.

In a process of self directed learning and uncovering, I often study art history, especially “the other art history”, the work of women artists from the past and present, whose work often informs mine. 

I like to interrupt the usual way we see things and allow us to see them in a new way.”