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Preparati (Microscope Slides)
Creator	Mia Paller
Year	2020
Bio	Mia Paller [SI] is a Rotterdam-based artist. In her practice, she is interested in the crossover of drawing, printmaking, and analogue photography in relation to the concepts of indexicality, trace and gesture. She mainly works in the media of painting, moving image, and photography. Her work has been shown at several exhibitions and film festivals in Slovenia, the Netherlands, UK, and Croatia.
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Website	http://miapaller.site/

Preparati is a series of analogue photographs of the barricades from the ‘10-day war’ for Slovenia (1991). These concrete pyramids were dropped by the road in artist’s hometown Bač and have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. They seem like forgotten monuments. Artist has approached them by combining drawing, frottage and analogue photographic techniques as means of close examination with a forensic quality. The process of enlarging the photographic negative is analogous to that of inspecting a specimen, a microscope slide. Images expose the texture and its ‘flaws’ and echo Mia Paller’s fascination for surfaces and the concepts of trace, index and abstraction.

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 |Creator=Mia Paller
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-|Bio=Mia Paller (1995, Ljubljana, SI) graduated in Lens-Based Media Design (MA) from Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam). Prior to that, she finished her BA studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (SI). Her practice consists of painting, moving image, and photography. She participated in several exhibitions and film festivals mainly in Slovenia, but also in the Netherlands, UK, and Croatia. Mia Paller currently lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
+|Bio=Mia Paller [SI] is a Rotterdam-based artist. In her practice, she is interested in the crossover of drawing, printmaking, and analogue photography in relation to the concepts of indexicality, trace and gesture. She mainly works in the media of painting, moving image, and photography. Her work has been shown at several exhibitions and film festivals in Slovenia, the Netherlands, UK, and Croatia.
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-|Description=Preparati is a series of analogue photographs and frottages of the barricades from the ‘10-day war’ for Slovenia (1991). These concrete pyramids were roughly dropped by the road in my hometown Bač and have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. As I was born in 1995, the barricades seem to me like monuments of the war I did not live and know little about. Frottage means a ‘print’ of an object’s surface, created by covering the object with paper and rubbing it with graphite. I understand frottaging and photographing as means of close examination with a forensic quality. The process of enlarging the photographic negative is analogous to that of inspecting a specimen, a microscope slide. As if time was a sediment compressed in one layer, flattened in a drawing or an analogue photograph. Images expose the texture and its ‘flaws’ and echo my fascination for surfaces and the concepts of trace, index and abstraction.
+|Description=Preparati is a series of analogue photographs of the barricades from the ‘10-day war’ for Slovenia (1991). These concrete pyramids were dropped by the road in artist’s hometown Bač and have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. They seem like forgotten monuments. Artist has approached them by combining drawing, frottage and analogue photographic techniques as means of close examination with a forensic quality. The process of enlarging the photographic negative is analogous to that of inspecting a specimen, a microscope slide. Images expose the texture and its ‘flaws’ and echo Mia Paller’s fascination for surfaces and the concepts of trace, index and abstraction.
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