Jelena Telecki at Starkwhite w/ Jelena Telecki

Jelena Telecki is a Yugoslavian, Sydney based artist working amongst a practice of painting, drawing and sculpture to explore representation and its possibilities. Looking towards the absurd to investigate the personal and the political. 

Her paintings display rich elements of narrative, the paintings themselves almost mimicking the likes of film stills, or rather a play through their theatrical nature. Cropped figures surrounded by murky greyscale atmospheres, luring viewers into a narrative that they don't quite know all the answers too.  

Within her current self-titled show at Starkwhite, Jelena Telecki showcases work from the past decade of her practice. Bringing these works, and their figures together in space and time, through their overarching connected atmospheres. Creating this enhanced feeling of her work as an extended play, experiencing each act through every encounter of a painting. 

Maya had a chat with Jelena about the show and overall practice.