At Liste, Ana Viktoria Dzinic presents an installation consisting of photographic paintings and a flower display.
 
‘I was reprimanded for digitally circulating what some deemed “unflattering” but popular images. This led to the imposition of an “approve-before-post” policy—an edict more commonly associated with Hollywood Starlets or PR agents. Nonetheless, a number of my friends voiced their discontent, accusing me of misrepresentation fuelled by the fear of wrong exposure to the right crowd. In response, I began a body of work that adhered to the very logic of the “approve-before-post” rule – a logic I recognise as the portrait tradition of the twenty-first-century under a “Business Approved Socialite Doctrine”’
 
The resulting works blend photography with painting, generating painterly gestures with software while mimicking digital filters with physical pigments and brushstrokes. Transposing Vilém Flusser's analysis of technical images in the era of digital networks,  Dzinic’s work uses the codes of traditional expressionist portraiture paired with the legacy of mass mediatisation to convey a subject’s ‘aura.’

Ana Viktoria Dzinic (1994, DE) is a London-based artist who investigates methods of image construction and their relationship with processes of subjectivity production. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; 032C, Berlin and Seoul; NıCOLETTı, London; Van der Hoeden Contemporary, Hamburg;  Echo Correspondence, Vienna; and Emalin, London.