The directors, not needing a movie camera for their story, have staged a full-blooded experience, a spatial homage to film that affects the viewer both by its strong psychological charge as well as a persuasive visual structure allowing an intense and memorable sensorial experience. Murder, My Sweet is a dark and mysterious labyrinth of metropolis sidewalks, electrified with erotic lust and obscure sinisterness; there are light and darkness, sex and violence, a feeling in one’s bones of cigarette smoke and cheap whisky…

In some of their previous joint art projects, Meta Grgurevič and Urša Vidic addressed the subject of femininity in pop culture. Although a cynical, hard-ass and disappointed macho, a typical hero of film noir, is featured, their narrative is focused on a woman this time as well. A daring, seductive and amoral femme fatale. The artists draw from the rich heritage of popular culture mainly through the language of form: their work is foremost an exploration of a specific visual language, an exploration of the possibility of transposing it from the film to the fine art mis-en-scene. The result is a dramatic experience that offers the viewer here and now the experience of film noir; although three-dimensional, it still remains black-and-white.
— Matjaž Brulc

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Urša Vidic (1978) completed her M.A. studies at Ljubljana’s Academy of Fine Art and Design. Since 2004, she has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Hungary. In addition to numerous acknowledgements, she has been an award nominee several times in international selections, including the Vordemberge-Gildewart fund in 2010, the Essl Award for Central/Southeast Europe and the 1st GoldenerKentaur, Europäischer Kunstpreis des Münchner Künstlerhauses, Munich. She lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Meta Grgurevič (1979) finished her post-graduate studies in painting at the Venice Fine Art Academy in 2007. Since then, she has produced locally a number of solo projects and has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, the UK, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Macedonia. Her most recent large project, One Foot On A Banana Peel And With The Other In A Grave, was presented at the 54th Venice Biennale as part of the group exhibition at the Italian Pavilion ACCADEMIA, Tese di San Cristoforo. She lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Since 2010, the artists have been intensively working on solo joint projects (Flowers Are Inherently Disgusting, MGML, Match Gallery, 2010; Deadly Kiss Me, Simulaker Gallery, 2011) and participating in group exhibitions (Šest umetnic(se) predstavlja, Odprti atelje, Maribor; Yes, AKTO festival, Macedonia, and others).