Andrea Palášti
Andrea Palášti , a Serbian artist and educator, grounds her contribution in timely consideration at the intersection of teaching and artistic practice. As a university professor navigating challenging circumstances, she transformed a moment of national attention into an exploration of form, turning an unexpected public remark about academics into a starting point for reflection and learning. While continuing to teach, she rethinks what course materials should encompass in order to remain relevant today. Her video lecture and accompanying workbook, The Shape of a Potato—introduce a “potato theory of form,” using the crop as both subject and lens. Through art history, hands-on exercises, and close observation, her work demonstrates how this underground stem can shift meaning and perception, becoming both material and metaphor for imagination, transformation, and subtle commentary on human experience in times of upheaval.
Andrea Palášti is an artist, learner, and researcher. She collaborates with various communities through informal group actions, experimenting with cross-disciplinary presentations. In her practice, she takes on roles such as: an ignorant artist-teacher, a lifelong student, a misleading tourist guide, a more-than-human fitness trainer, a dilettante freshwater ecologist, an unlicensed press photographer, a quasi primatologist, a noted expert on Dalmatian pyrethrum, an accidental historian, a passionate archive researcher, and a perfect dinner-party hostess. She holds a degree in Photography from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and currently lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia.
