Eva Petrič
Eva Petrič is a transmedia artist who is first known for her creative use of photography, with which she explores the language of shadows and our existence on an ephemeral level. Her motivation to create spaces on different levels, defined by atmosphere, leads her to use a transmedia approach in her art, in which she is also exploring scents and fragrances. For this purpose she developed her own formulas of fragrances, some of which have been later developed into commercial products. Among them is Lavinia, the custom made Lim. Ed. EDP for the 100-anniversary of the Grand Hotel Lavinia in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a national prize receiving perfume line DBE – Data Bank of Emotions for which she won the Silver Medal of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce for the most innovative product in 2021 in central region of Slovenia. More on her work with fragrances: https://www.eva-petric-evacuate.com/fragrances
Eva Petrič, born in Slovenia, lives and works as a transmedia artist in Vienna (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and in New York City. She is the artist of the Galerie Mourlot, New York City. She holds a BA cum laude in psychology and visual art from Webster University Vienna, and MFA in new media, from Transart Institute New York /Berlin.
Her art was shown at over 70 solo and 115 group exhibitions all over the world, receiving numerous recognitions and awards. In 2019 she participated in the 10th Anniversary United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City as part of The Best Of selection featuring award winners from the festival's first decade Selection of awards: 2017 Best Performance Art Award, United Solo Festival, NYC; 2017 Grand Prix 6th International Fine Arts Festival Kranj, Slovenia; 2017 Grant of the the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia; Red Carpet Tribute Award 2017, Vienna, Austria; 2016 SNBA Silver medal for photography, Paris, France; 2011 Pfann Ohman Preis,Vienna, Austria; 2010 Vordemberge-Gildewart award, 2006 Čišek awaed for Best short video in Slovenia in 2006.
She is the author of three published novels (They All Ate Sushi, nominated for 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Box without skin, floating, and Your Head is Full of Butterflies) and of a poetry collection (This Space is a Box), all translated into several languages and published in several countries, illustrated with her art photographs; as well as of two book of the artist (the 1015 pages limited edition book Gr@y Matter – language of shadows, and 700 pages limited edition book Shadows$Puppets – Language of E@motion Reacting).
Her visual art is presented in the monograph: Eva Petrič: TRANSapPARENT, ed. by L. Clergue and B. Mouraad, Triton 2013.
Her lace installations combined with visual poetry are presented in the monograph Eva Petrič, WEBBING, published by Drava 2018.