Project Space Resident

Jasna Bogdanovska

January 6 – February 3, 2026

Artist Statement

Identity is a slippery concept. Layers of influence—of the collective and the individual, cultural and geographical, both real and imagined—shape us. As an artist, immigrant and a woman I am a combination of many identities. They converge, diverge, and transform.

My practice examines social fragmentation, layers of identity, and assigned cultural and stereotypical expectations and roles. My artistic process is multilayered. I create microscopic images of symbolic subjects—from biofluids to family heirlooms. While intimately observing these personal icons, I am an insider and an outsider simultaneously. The microscopic images are used to create digital negatives, which are then distressed by hand. They are destroyed and reinvented through various alternative processes. The process bridges the digital and the analog, moving between control and artistic experimentation. I am interested in how these elements work jointly and against one another- exploring the losses and gains from each of these relationships.

Bio

Jasna Bogdanovska is a multimedia artist who explores issues of femininity, culture, migration, duality and identity using various media such as photography, installation and video. Her photographic practice blends analog, digital and alternative processes. Bogdanovska’s project Between Near and Far explores migration and duality following the Mid Atlantic Ridge. She is a recipient of multiple awards and is widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including Macedonia, Iceland, Croatia, South Korea, Bosnia, China, Italy, Canada and the US. Bogdanovska was the runner up to represent Macedonia at the 2017 Venice Biennale and has been Artist-in-Residence in Iceland and Spain.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.