Soundscapes – Impulses, a sound installation representing the sound of a drawing. Contrary to the artworks, which are controlled by the outer psychological stimuli, Ana Sladetić is interested in physical stimulations that surround us, and how they are affected by the unconscious. Impulses from 2013 is a series of works that came from the inability to control a graphical line during a four hour bus ride from home to work (Zagreb to Osijek) and back. The artist has let the environment take control over the drawing on the paper and she used her body, her hand, as a filter and transmitter of the stimuli. The process resulted in shaken, unrestrained lines. The environment (in this case the bus ride and the space in motion) affects the human in a certain way through vibrations, and by capturing these unconscious vibrations an interesting aesthetics of forms and drawings has been revealed. Using a hand scanner these drawings are translated into sounds represented at the exhibition. Interesting transfers from internal to external and back are made through parallel relations between sound from within the bus, drawing and translating the drawing back into sounds.
Soundscapes – ImpulsesAna Sladetić (HR)
sound installation
Ana Sladetić (HR)
Ana Sladetić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she defended her dissertation under the mentorship of full professor Ante Rašić and associate professor Leonida Kovač, PhD. She has exhibited at 17 solo exhibitions in Zagreb, Rijeka, Samobor, Koprivnica, Ilok, Paris, Berlin, Wiesbaden and St. Mary’s City, Maryland, USA. She has participated in over 150 group exhibitions in Europe and abroad, including the Recontre / Begegnung / Encounter (2020, Haus Burgund, Mainz), Artist / Don Quixote (2019, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg im KunstLANDing, Aschaffenburg), Portrait 2018 (2018, 3CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do), 24th International Seoul Art Festival (2017, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul) and elsewhere. Sladetić has earned a number of recognitions, such as the Kranjčar Gallery Award at the 35th Youth Salon (2020) and the WCCA Award for Best Artwork of World Art Youth Festival, Seoul, South Korea (2016). She has participated in art residence programmes in Germany, France, Finland, Belgium and USA, and has held several public lectures and workshops in collaboration with Croatian and foreign cultural institutions. Since 2011, she works at the Department for Visual and Media Arts of the Academy of Art and Culture in Osijek, where she is assistant professor since 2017.
