MARKO ŠAJN (1990) is a Slovenian visual artist working in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture making and art publications. He studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He regularly exhibits both in Slovenia and internationally, and his works are held in private and public collections. 

He often depicts human figures in his works, making them easily recogniseable. The figures are extremely stylized, even typified, as they always appear without facial features, having a similar hairstyle and wearing similar clothes. Through them, he is building an undefined space, where the figures take up different positions and allow for different interpretations of emotions and moods, expressed by body posture, gestures and movements. The figures form compositions in which their mutual relations, (common) tendencies and actions are reflected through the visual language of the bodies. In these compositions, the artist keeps the choreography of the movements vague enough to leave the interpretation of the relationships open - namely, it is not always clear whether the figures are friendly or hostile to each other, whether they are playing or fighting, shaking hands or measuring strength, embracing or suffocating... In the face of this ambiguity, it seems that the artist is mainly trying to show the noise in the communication between the depicted figures, as it also often happens in our everyday lives.


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