BIOGRAPHY

Jelena Sokić was born in Split, Croatia in 1980. In the period from 2000/02. she begins to actively draw and paint, realizing that this will become her profession. Since 2005, she has been enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, majoring in painting, where she graduated in 2013. During his studies, she participates in the Erasmus mobility program and spends a year at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. All the time during his studies, and especially after graduation, she actively participates in various artistic events, participates in collective and organizes solo exhibitions. She uses painting, drawing, graphics, video, illustration as a medium of expression. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

She understands painting as a process. It is a way of communicating the understanding of one's own vision of the world as intensely as possible. For her, it is something permanent, commitment and experience. Taking pictures does not serve to cause scandal or satisfy curiosity. Above all, painting is an evocation of the mystical that could not be expressed in any other way. In her work, she uses everyday motifs and translate them into artistic themes. Objects and inspirations are everywhere, everyday events, cognitions and emotions. What interests her is experience, memory and intuition, descriptions of heaven. Bones, big pictures and small pictures, pirates and Italian canzones. Tangerines, dance, dimensions of love and fear, sunrises and sunsets, tenderness, horizon.

jeca.sokic@gmail.com