10/03/2026
Marina Rajšić: Print Screen
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The exhibition Marina Rajšić: Print Screen opened on Friday, 27 February at 7 pm at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art. The opening included a screening of a single-channel film version of the eponymous five-channel video installation Print Screen.
The exhibition remains open until 27 March.
Marina Rajšić’s latest piece is a film (single-channel) version of the namesake video installation Print Screen (2021), consisting of five simultaneous video screenings onto surfaces arranged spatially so that they simulate open tabs on a computer’s workspace (kept in the collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka). Examining the influence of digital technologies on the perception of one’s own (female) appearance, achieved by analysing search engine patterns via Google Trends, and manipulating one’s own image via Snapchat, the author challenges the beauty imperative and the youth cult imposed by the media and championed by the social media. The emphasis is on the new form of body dysmorphia evolved thanks to the Snapchat application and its face filters, underlining how the dependency on the digital image has deeply ingrained in reality which exists outside the physical sphere.
In a dense grid of quotes from popular and academic culture appearing in Print Screen, the impact of John Berger and his critique of stereotypical gender roles and ‘female’ space limitations stand out. He speaks about the new age crisis of the female identity and slaving to the image of perfection in the society of mass consumption. The dysmorphia phenomenon points to the mechanism of the socially acceptable yet covert violence blurring the boundaries between truth and lies. A single-channel version of Print Screen mildly deflects from the installation version with a few added shots portraying the author at the time of the editing of the piece, highlighting the difference from the previous five-channel version, which will be presented in the central space of Vodnjan’s Apoteka as a storyboard – a sketch with elaborated shots.
(an updated text accompanying the exhibition Kud plovi ovaj oblak, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, 2023)
Ksenija Orelj, Sabina Salamon
Marina Rajšić (1995, Rijeka) is an artist and visual communications designer. She graduated in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka in 2019. In December 2018, she published the artist book The Art (ifice) of Beauty, for which she received the University of Rijeka Rector’s Award. She was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award 2022, part of the international network YVAA – Young Visual Artists Awards, and in December 2022 she received the 2nd prize “Ivan Kožarić Award”, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb) and the City of Zagreb. In 2023, she received the Best Young Artist Award from the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH), and in 2025 she was awarded at the 15th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture. Her works are part of Croatian public collections (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria). She has been a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association since 2023.
Project collaborators: Matija Debeljuh, Leonard Lukinac, Maja Rajšić, Ivan Pešut.
Supported by: Istrian County – Regione Istriana.