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Semâ Bekirovic
I didn’t know about this artist before. I wasn’t even planning a visit to the Hayward. It was one of those days when you just stumble across something really worth finding. Semâ Bekirovic often plays with chance in her work so it feels rather apt that I found her this way. READ MORE
I loved the Paint videos where objects sink into invisibility as they become immersed in white paint; it’s lovely watching them disappear. And then there’s Event Horizon: a dot on the landscape walks closer and closer to you until it blots out all light. It made me a laugh and also made me kinda choke on my laughter. There was warmth there, I guess because as the dot became closer you found it had legs which humanised the image but then when it covered all vision so all that’s left was black you felt the darkness – it sort of went cold. So, if you can take a visit to the Hayward Project Space before 25 July. You can check Semâ Bekirovic’s work over here. Another brilliant female artist.