Zorica Vasic is an artist who usually works with drawing and writing, where the first are reminiscent of comic frames and usually addressed to someone within her visual diary. She is adjunct professor and she teaches drawing and color studies as a sessional instructor at OCAD University.

Mundane themes and popular culture like email spam, Internet astrology, web romance, dream analysis, on one side and the making of art and isolation as a precondition for artist production on the other. Some topics such as pirates are spontaneously recurrent over a long period of time and became part of the work vernacular.

Since 2012, Vasic is a principal of the artist collective Dark Triangle, with artists Matt Crookshank and Ulysses Castellanos. Dark Triangle is represented by Georgia Scherman projects in Toronto, Canada. Her writings and texts have been published in ICA (London, UK), CASCO Issues, Utrecht (The Netherlands), STOPSTOP magazine for contemporary Art (Glasgow, UK), RE magazine (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Public Relations – The new Photography in Britain, Stadhaus Ulm (Germany, published by Cantz), Gallery W139 Catalogues (Amsterdam), Le démarche (Leuven, Belgium).

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Last Imported is a project structured around the idea of a travelogue. This visual diary of a trip to Argentina, among Vasic’ usual style of drawing and text, will incorporate the research on the famed Argentinian comic tradition from the 80’s and 90’s onwards. Drawings will be accumulated to stream in a chronological order on a roll of semi-transparent Chinese calligraphy paper. In the course of the project, the paper scroll will be polished with layers of liquid rubber latex. Latex drawings on a calligraphy paper is an innovative medium that Vasic developed, that expands volume and body of paper, transforming its two-dimensional plane into a 3-dimensional object.