In her artistic practice, visual artist Sara Bezovšek creates visually saturated images by appropriating online material and examining what people look at and share on social media, how visuals are transmitted around the internet, how these visuals are influenced by different contexts and how they impact people. In doing so, she highlights the fact that online content and online references have become a consistent and indispensable part of the world we live in.

In the exhibition Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down the artist presents new works in the form of collages, which are the result of a long process of collecting and editing photographs and emoticons that she came across while browsing the web. By collaging found photographs, creating natural and urban landscapes and incorporating emoticons, she is graphically recording a variety of events, at once familiar and alien to the viewer in their proportions and unusual combinations. In the images of the sea, plants and the urban environment, as well as in the uplift into the mountain and even outer space world, it is possible to search for and pay attention to details and to unravel narratives hidden in the bigger picture.

In addition to the collages, the exhibition also includes an interactive website named SND (Introduction to Nature and Society – a common subject in Slovenian elementary schools) and screen recordings of its subpages, which plucks its visitors from their idyllic starting position and leads them through possible futures of our planet – natural catastrophes such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, fires and tsunamis, overpopulation, ice ages, worldwide pandemics, alien invasions, nuclear explosions, meteor strikes, and other potential apocalyptic scenarios. The content that the artist has found online, e.g. short videos, clips from popular films and TV series, memes, photographs, GIFs, pop culture references, emojis and hyperlinks to various articles, forms a complex and visually saturated narrative which follows the premise of a typical Hollywood film.