Ava Tribušon Ovsenik

Distorted digital collage of photographic material depicting roadway landscape with trees, hills and road banner.

Ava (Ljubljana, b. 1997) is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in London. She graduated cum laude from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (2021) and complemented her studies at Parsons School of Design in New York, Anhalt University in Dessau and Berlin International University of Applied Sciences.

Prior to the RCA, Ava was part of the educational programme Academia Nuts at the Ulay Foundation in Ljubljana and undertook the artist residency Rise of Women in Western Balkans in Zadar. She is a member of the Ljubljana Fine Artists Society DLUL, exhibiting locally and abroad.

My practice comes to life in the ambivalent space between the daily anguish of being static and longing for a home. ▅ Held in motion while moved stock still.

I start by seeking out sites where markers of a home become distorted and to belong is to be dᵢₛₚₗₐcₑd.

Always encouraging a conversation between tangible and bodiless environments we inhabit simultaneously while testing the scopes of their compatibility within image-making. ⊙ It is all tethered to my ever-changing surroundings that eventually transform into universal landscapes or strange objects.

Familiar outcasts and uncommon goods! ❒ ◛

I am interested in the rhythm analysis of the mundane. Following the homespun until it turns to SUBLIME ⑉

Print is about acknowledging the imminent layers at hand, where tireless ⓘⓣⓔⓡⓐⓣⓘⓞⓝ can lead to the ultimate 𝓸𝓷𝓮-𝓸𝓯𝓯 and repetition stimulates difference. Digital and analogue weft endorse malfunctions and embrace them as an inevitable

g̫̫l̫̫i̫̫t̫̫c̫̫h̫̫ to the final outcome.

Images and objects from personal archive fuel my practice as ambiguous motives or become alienated subjects of the work. They are precious recollections of the future as a vast space that shelters a dubious idea of ke̺͆e̺͆ping time. _