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Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist and fashion designer who deals with the topics of clothing fetishes, sexual identity, painting pigments, gardens, toxic and psychoactive substances, death, and transience. His projects rely on myths, alchemical records, art, and fashion history which he decomposes into chemical, symbolic, social, and political elements linking history and modernity. He works in the media of graphics, sculpture, installations, and performances that mark the processes of transformation of matter through emergence or disappearance. The material he uses is rare, dangerous, or ephemeral, like extracts from illegal plants, pure caffeine, or perfume from body secretions, and he makes it according to his recipes by chemical laboratory methods of crystallization, distillation, extraction, and sublimation.

Selected exhibitions
Since 2002, he has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally (Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan, USA), including the International Triennial of New Media. Art, Beijing (2011, 2014); Digiark, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012); MSU, Zagreb (2005, 2009, 2012); Platform3 - Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich (2010); Device_art, Zagreb-San Francisco-Beijing (2004, 2006, 2010).