SofijaSilvia(Silvia Potočki)
SofijaSilvia’s work is characterised by a poetic approach to nature, history, and human psychology. There is a pedagogical value to her work as it stimulates intuitive reading, which invites the viewers to adjust their senses to see, to perceive, to think. For her exhibitions, she thinks about the material aspect of the photographs and works with the context of the place and space. To exhibit her photographs, she will use furniture, make custom-made frames, the photographs will take on sculptural forms and exhibitions will become immersive installations. She creates spaces 'for the re-education of the senses, places of social intimacy and reflection in silence.' (Chus Martinez). She lives and works between Pula, Croatia and Paris, France. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in Croatia and internationally, Art Pavilion Zagreb(2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb(2021), Krinzinger Projekte Vienna (2019), Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (2017), Institut Français (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria (2016), Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (2011), Camera Austria, Graz (2008). She has been awarded residencies by L'AiR ARTS, Atelier 11, Cité Falguirè, Paris (France 2022), European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today, organised in EU Japan Fest in association with Rijeka European Capital of Culture (Japan, 2019), AIR Kuberton organised by Museum – Museo Lapidarium from Novigrad-Cittanova, and Krinzinger Projekte from Vienna (Croatia, 2018) and the French Institute (Paris, 2017). SofijaSilvia studied photography at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, before obtaining her MA of Fine Arts at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London. She currently teaches at Paris College of Art. Her work is in Croatian and international public and private collections.