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Jelena Jureša is a visual artist and filmmaker born in Yugoslavia, in Novi Sad. She is currently based in Ghent. Through her films and video installations, Jureša connects individual stories to collective processes of oblivion and remembrance, challenging historical and political narratives and destabilizing perceptions of truth.
In recent years, Jureša’s research has focused on practices of oppression and their implications in systems of violence, resulting in multidisciplinary projects blending the political with the highly personal. The work has been showcased internationally with solo exhibitions at Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, Künstlerhaus in Graz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
In 2015, as a Jackman Goldwasser resident artist at the inviation from the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, she started research on the questions and relations of public art – capitalism – patriarchy. As a Q21 artist in residence in Vienna in 2016, she studied the work of anthropologists and racial hygienists during the Austrian imperial period, along with post-WWII politics of oblivion in Austria.