VCA ART 2021

Krishna Mohajer

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

Through painting over old photographs, my work seeks to express the sentimental relationship we might have to the past. I consider memories as a driving force and infinite source of inspiration. Influenced by Gerhard Richter’s abstract series of photo-paintings, I experiment with masking and exposing layers of a personal memory by working with multi-step techniques, including brushwork and scraping back the image. Using the articulate potential of colours, I allude to emotions such as hope, anger, disbelief and determination. Revisiting events that occurred a decade ago in my life, my work has provided a chance to meditate upon my personal memories. It has given me the opportunity to self-heal and ponder past decisions that are still shaping the present.

Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed Media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Krishna Mohajer, Between Lines, Mixed media, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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