Nuclear Nymphs – short experimental poetic movie
I weave a web of my microcosmic narrative about sirens, ondines, naiads, and sea entities, such as their indirect foremother Tiamat, the dragon goddess of primordial chaos, but also vampires, succubi and aliens. I'm dealing with mythological creatures in this piece, a testament to my obsession with numerous facets of female archetypes and the ways in which my fluid and multi-layered identity draws from that rich and vast pool. The aim is to annihilate temporarity and fragmented nature of information-saturated contemporarity by anchoring the identity through its connection to myth and ancient times. Archerypes are eternal.
The turbulent, dark and deep ocean is a metaphor for emotions, and the violent verbal images of seduction, castration and destruction are sadomasochistic and fetishistic fantasies after the death of a relationship that was meaningful to me or after trauma, which triggered pain and confusion in me. I nurture wings to rise from agony like a phoenix from the ashes or fight against despotic authority and the Name of the Father, in the shelter of wild nature and naked elements with which I am making love. I sexualize anger in order to create dramatic tension, and I process all motifs through the reconstruction of poetic language and playing with stylistic figures. I try to create a hypnotic, magical and mystical atmosphere, through linguistic acrobatics and ritualistically repetitive singing similar to a medieval liturgy or madrigal, in order to heal trauma and psychological ruptures and to be reborn.
Formally, I use glitch and short interpolations of illustrations to desintegrate fluidity of the image and therefore reflect the fractured, unstable and unreliable nature of digital world, but thematically, I dance and chant through the cracks to smooth the narative and revamp my old shattered selves, like kintsugi.
The turbulent, dark and deep ocean is a metaphor for emotions, and the violent verbal images of seduction, castration and destruction are sadomasochistic and fetishistic fantasies after the death of a relationship that was meaningful to me or after trauma, which triggered pain and confusion in me. I nurture wings to rise from agony like a phoenix from the ashes or fight against despotic authority and the Name of the Father, in the shelter of wild nature and naked elements with which I am making love. I sexualize anger in order to create dramatic tension, and I process all motifs through the reconstruction of poetic language and playing with stylistic figures. I try to create a hypnotic, magical and mystical atmosphere, through linguistic acrobatics and ritualistically repetitive singing similar to a medieval liturgy or madrigal, in order to heal trauma and psychological ruptures and to be reborn.
Formally, I use glitch and short interpolations of illustrations to desintegrate fluidity of the image and therefore reflect the fractured, unstable and unreliable nature of digital world, but thematically, I dance and chant through the cracks to smooth the narative and revamp my old shattered selves, like kintsugi.
Short Bio
I was born in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia. I graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2004. I am engaged in painting, drawing, photography, collage, glitch art, installations, animation, video, and multimedia. I also write poetry.
I exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, and film festivals, in my country and abroad (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Palestine, Argentina, Poland, Italy, UK, Portugal, France, Spain, Sweden, USA, India, Netherlands, Mexico, Russia, Greece, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan).
My drawings were included in the Anthology of Croatian Erotic Drawing, „Eros and Pornos“, 2004. In 2006 my first poetry book was published ( „Posjekotine“/“Cuts“), and in 2023 the second one, „Black Mamba“. My work was presented in many croatian and international publications, among others, in A5, Gestalten, Make8elieve, Poezija, Zarez, Rijeci, Vijenac, Self-As-Subject: The Multiple Exposure Project Zine, Stigmart10 Videofocus, Il corpo solitario III and IV (Solitary body: the self-timer in contemporary photography). My photography is part of four Saatchi Art Gallery collections. My drawings became a part of Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, USA, among works of Picasso, Koons, Basquiat, Warhol, Banksy, Marina Abramovic and others). I received seven awards for my work.
I exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, and film festivals, in my country and abroad (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Palestine, Argentina, Poland, Italy, UK, Portugal, France, Spain, Sweden, USA, India, Netherlands, Mexico, Russia, Greece, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan).
My drawings were included in the Anthology of Croatian Erotic Drawing, „Eros and Pornos“, 2004. In 2006 my first poetry book was published ( „Posjekotine“/“Cuts“), and in 2023 the second one, „Black Mamba“. My work was presented in many croatian and international publications, among others, in A5, Gestalten, Make8elieve, Poezija, Zarez, Rijeci, Vijenac, Self-As-Subject: The Multiple Exposure Project Zine, Stigmart10 Videofocus, Il corpo solitario III and IV (Solitary body: the self-timer in contemporary photography). My photography is part of four Saatchi Art Gallery collections. My drawings became a part of Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, USA, among works of Picasso, Koons, Basquiat, Warhol, Banksy, Marina Abramovic and others). I received seven awards for my work.
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