Farah Sara Kurnik's work Render Pending revolves around issues of production conditions and the hard-to-bridge gap between creative potential and the reality of unfinished projects resulting from freelancing, keeping an online persona and juggling different projects at the same time.

The artist allows viewers to explore her fictional computer desktop, offering an insight into her working process, which is often characterised by overwork, lack of time, pressure from clients and her own dissatisfaction with the final product. The chaotic digging through folders of working versions, drafts and rough sketches, moodboards, notes, unanswered emails and missed deadlines, failed renderings, placeholder materials as well as her digital suicide note represents the other side of the creative process and raises the question of whether a work of art can ever really be finished and whether it can ever be realised in the way we have wanted.

With Render Pending, the artist continues her exploration of mechanisms and systems for the visual categorisation, systematisation and communication of certain contents, but this time turns her gaze introspectively from fictional speculative worlds to her own very personal process. She tries to distance herself from her work and leave it entirely to strangers, but remains trapped in the interface, present in the form of witty comments and humorous instructions. She invites us to help completing her work by answering emails or rendering 3D models, but we quickly get caught in a limbo of endless repetitive clicking. At some point we have to accept that the work will never really be finished - and that's okay.

Farah Sara Kurnik (2000) works in the fields of graphic and industrial design, scenography, video and new technologies. She is currently studying Graphic and Media Technology at the Faculty of Science and Technology. She participated in many exhibitions, as well as designed many graphic images for contemporary Slovenian and foreign musicians, and musical events, within which she often takes on the role of a VJ. In 2021, she presented her work at the 34th graphic biennial ISKRA DELTA, as well as co-founded and led the Bilanca event series at Cukrarna Bar. In 2022, in collaboration with freštreš, she contributed installations and video projections for the theatre performance Zadnji naj ugasne luč at Prešeren Theatre Kranj, as well as providing the visual image, scenography and video material for the performance Da te ni sram at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre. In 2023 she had her solo exhibition Inventory Check at DobraVaga gallery and in the same year she presented her work at The Wrong Biennale as part of the group exhibition Kres. She is a member of the Ljubljana-based collective Nimaš izbire.

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Delo Render Pending Farah Sare Kurnik se vrti okrog vprašanj produkcijskih pogojev ter težko premostljivega razkoraka med kreativnim potencialom in realnostjo nedokončanega dela, ki je posledica freelancanja, ohranjanja spletne osebnosti in usklajevanja več različnih projektov hkrati.

Umetnica gledalcem omogoči raziskovanje svojega fiktivnega računalniškega namizja in tako ponudi vpogled v svoj delovni proces, ki ga pogosto zaznamujejo preobremenjenost, pomanjkanje časa, pritiski naročnikov in lastno nezadovoljstvo s končnim izdelkom. Kaotično brskanje po mapah delovnih verzij, skicah, moodboardih, zapiskih, neuspelih renderjih, placeholder materialih ter neodgovorjenih e-poštnih sporočil in zamujenih rokov, predstavlja drugo plat kreativnega dela in odpira vprašanje, ali je umetniško delo kdaj res dokončano in ali ga res lahko kadarkoli realiziramo na način, kot smo si zamislili.

Z delom Render Pending umetnica nadaljuje raziskovanje mehanizmov in sistemov za vizualno kategorizacijo, sistematizacijo in komunikacijo določenih vsebin, vendar tokrat iz fiktivnih spekulativnih svetov introspektivno obrne pogled v svoj izjemno osebni proces. Od svojega dela se poskuša distancirati in ga popolnoma prepustiti neznancem, vendar ostaja ujeta v vmesniku, prisotna v obliki pikrih komentarjev in šaljivih navodil. Povabi nas, da ji pomagamo z odpisovanjem na maile ali renderiranjem 3D modelov, vendar se hitro ujamemo v limbo neskončnega repetitivnega klikanja. Na neki točki se pač moramo sprijazniti, da delo nikoli ne bo zares končano - in tudi to je v redu.

Farah Sara Kurnik (2000) je vizualna umetnica, ki ustvarja na področju grafičnega in industrijskega oblikovanja, scenografije, videa in novih tehnologij. Trenutno študira na Naravoslovnotehniški fakulteti, smer Grafična in medijska tehnika. Sodelovala je na različnih razstavah ter oblikovala mnogo grafičnih podob aktualnih slovenskih in tujih glasbenikov in glasbenih dogodkov, znotraj katerih je pogosto prevzela tudi vlogo VJ-ke. Leta 2021 je svoje delo predstavila na 34. grafičnem bienalu ISKRA DELTA in v istem letu soustvarila ter vodila cikel glasbenih dogodkov Bilanca v Baru Cukrarna. Leta 2022 je v sodelovanju s freštreš prispevala likovno podobo v obliki inštalacij in video projekcij za gledališko predstavo Zadnji naj ugasne luč v Prešernovem gledališču Kranj in ustvarila vizualno podobo, scenografijo in video material za predstavo Da te ni sram v Lutkovnem gledališču Ljubljana. Leta 2023 je v galeriji DobraVaga predstavila samostojno razstavo Inventory Check ter v istem letu v sklopu skupinske razstave Kres predstavila svoje delo na The Wrong Biennale. Je članica ljubljanskega kolektiva Nimaš izbire.