Slovenian born visual artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where she started experimenting with moving images. She traveled to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant for her MFA at California Institute of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Soros and Durffee Grants among others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Douloun Museum of Art in Shanghai, Circulo de bellas artes and ARCO Fair in Madrid, Kunstlerwerkstatt in Munich, Bevilacqua la masa in Venice, Spazio Erasmus Brera in Milan, Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel, LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Ruth Bachofner Gallery and MOAH - Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Los Angeles and The European Capital of Culture Commission. She exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale. First she represented Slovenia at the 48th Biennale with her project Gladiators, for which she received Prešern Fund Award, a national award for great achievement in art, and in 2015 she was part of the Biennale’s group exhibition 20 Artists from Los Angeles, presented by bardoLA. She lives and works between Venice, CA and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her video and installation works reflect the world through a prism of imaginative, sometimes surreal or utopian prospect of non-anthropocentric future, where everything is connected and coexists with equal significance. The process of layering integrates different visual elements and leads to fragments of narrations. Recorded footage undergoes elaborate editing process, which enables her to deconstruct and reconfigure the relationships between layers, to create a new reciprocity among them. In the process of production she crafts all aspects of her projects: concept, recording, editing, sound and often performing - using her own body as a subject of transformation. Sourcing from personal experiences, her practice encompasses the impact of technological and social changes on people, with specific interest in changing gender landscape. It reflects the world of consumerism, continuous political crisis and addiction to technology. Finding a ground of connection that unites people with the organic world, she is testing the limitations of human, mainly female, body and hinting at its potential limitlessness. The anatomy of the images is in flux, in perpetual mutation, transformative states, questioning the integrity of the body, integrity of the self, the impermanence and transitory nature of human condition, of all conditions.