QUESTIONS WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE / INTERVIEW #8 / MAŠA STANIĆ

subject: Maša Stanić
location: Vienna
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curated by Chris Williams

1. What’s an outfit when you feel the most confident?

(above)

2. If you had to describe your work in one word, what would it be?
Raw

3. Who is your biggest influence in art?
There is no such thing for me than one big influence. For me, certain situations lead to certain influences. It could be something I normally don’t find inspiring, but I do at that certain moment or phase in my life. Or maybe it’s a person who crosses my path and gives me a certain inspiration.

4. Which one of your pieces are you obsessed with?
Funny because it is one of the most untypical pictures of mine that I’m obsessed with. This was in Macedonia, at the Ohrid Lake. I love how abstract it is; it looks like a painting. Everything about it is calming to me, including the colors and the forms. If I had a huge apartment, I’d hang it really big so I could just stare at it.

5. What is your favorite film photo? What do you enjoy about taking film photos?
99% of my pictures are analog. I mostly shoot with film, and only if it is really necessary, I do digital. And favorite, OMG, this question is so tough on me. But there is one pic that I have
loved for years and always get back to, and that this one: (I have it hanging in my apartment)

6. Which piece shows the most happiness ?

7. What music do you listen to while creating?
Oh wow, my music taste is like a psychosis. I’m one of those people; when I get asked what music I listen to, I say, “Everything,” hahaha. It makes people mad, but how can you only listen to one genre? I need for each mood something.

My shuffle goes like this:
Limp Bizkit —> Missy Elliot—> Balkan Turbofolk song —> Nina Simone —> some 90s trance kinda vibe song —> THEN SUDDENLY there comes Chopin Nocturne no.20
But I’d say if I need to focus, my fav background music is mostly Cuban/bossa nova shit or jazz lately.

 

8. What outfit describes who you are the most?