THE REVOLUTION
IS NOT A SERIOUS THING
MAKE THE SYSTEM GLITCH
Through layered materiality and digital interference, I construct visual systems that refuse resolution. Each work exists in a state of tension between hand and code, between physical trace and digital noise, between structure and dissolution.
HERE IN PONTE EGOLA, FLORENCE, MY STORY BEGAN -1972 watch full documentary
Blejzca investigates the liminal zone between analog and digital practices, positioning her work at the intersection of psychedelic imaginaries and bourgeois cultural conventions.
Her artistic process resists closure and predefinition: rather than producing finalized, programmatic objects, it operates as an open field in which emergent forms converge, activating a continuous dialectic between flux and structure.
42×30 cm. Ink on paper – BOLOGNA 1980 – GENOA G8 – G. SIANI – ILLUSTRATIONS CREATED ON COMMISSION
Born in Tuscany in 1972, Blejzca emerged from a cultural environment shaped by radical experimentation, underground publishing and psychedelic counterculture. Raised within anarchic communities connected to the Ponte Egola experience, her visual language developed through underground music, political graphics and the intellectual influence of her father, Alfredo P. philosophy teacher and journalist whose milieu intersected with figures linked to Andrea Pazienza and the satirical magazine Il Male. This subversive cultural legacy continues to inform her practice, where structured design languages are deliberately destabilized through fragmentation, distortion and material tension. Working across digital painting, graphic experimentation and spatial drawing, Blejzca collaborated with studios and agencies between Milan and San Francisco, contributing to projects connected to architecture, publishing and visual communication. She studied and later taught at IED Milan, working with studios including Grafco (San Francisco) and Origoni Steiner Architetti in Milan on projects related to Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Compasso d’Oro, Triennale Milano, Carlo Scarpa exhibitions in Verona, and visual productions for Disney and Warner Brothers. After years in graphic design and art direction, she shifted toward an independent artistic practice centered on experimentation, image instability and material research.
Within her work, the image becomes a space where structure and disruption coexist. Figures resist stable representation, moving between memory, distortion and psychological fragmentation.
Through the melting and reconfiguration of images, Blejzca transforms visual material into shifting spaces where past and present overlap. Shaped by the tension between collective cultural imaginaries and today’s hyper-consumerist reality, her work turns accumulated imagery and synthetic matter into acts of quiet resistance. Drawing becomes a process of dissolution and reconstruction, where memory and contemporary excess merge into unstable forms and perceptions.
1980- THE SILENO BOOKSHOP, GENOA
A historic meeting point for underground culture, philosophy, comics, literature and experimental thought, the Sileno bookshop became an early formative environment within Blejzca’s visual and intellectual landscape. As a child, she spent long afternoons there with her father, immersed in conversations, printed matter and countercultural imagery that would later inform her artistic practice. Part archive, part social space, the bookshop embodied a suspended atmosphere where everyday reality intersected with cultural mythologies and unexpected encounters.
CONVERSATIONS IN ISOLATION
Instagram live dialogues with Oliviero Toscani, Giacomo Nicolella Maschietti and Nicolas Ballario during the Covid lockdown. These interactions became a space for reflection and visual reorientation, generating new way of seeing the image-making and artistic research.
