Artist
Sanja Bistričić Srića
Sanja Bistričić Srića is a Zagreb-based multimedia artist, photographer and cinematographer. Exploring the possibilities of image, sound and text through various media – film, video, photography, collage – her work explores personal themes in a range of diaristic forms. Srića holds a Master’s degree in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. Her works and films have been widely exhibited in Croatia and abroad, whilst her images have been published by the likes of Elle, Vice and Interview. She is a co-founder and member of the multidisciplinary collective RA’AH, which explores intersections of fashion, art and music.
SHIFT
SHIFT is a constantly-updated series of photographs, created over a long period of time. The work deals with the deconstruction and decontextualisation of images from existing materials. Through various interventions, both photographs found in magazines and my own images, are transformed by a shift in their original context. By researching and applying different techniques to a photograph that already has a given form – marking over, adding, hiding, highlighting, or changing colour – I am interested in the transformation that occurs; the journey that the image goes through, and all its possible alternative outcomes.
This year, we selected a group of artists working in the broader regional context whose artistic practices cover a variety of visual approaches we’d like to support through Organ Vida programs. Sanja Bistričić Srića experiments with different techniques of deconstruction and decontextualisation of archived images. The work of Filip Bojović and Pavo Marinović reflects on the visual language and heritage found in the context of the Balkans. Dea Botica revisits family maritime tradition through a speculative documentary depiction of everyday life on a cargo ship. And Fred Mungo captures the mundane experience of serving and eating food as means of understanding social, economical and cultural implications of food consumption.