Painting, Installation

Island of Rab / Croatia

Sani Gulic is a conceptual artist driven by 'LIFE IS AN ATTEMPT TO AN APPROACH.' Born of Croatian origin in former Yugoslavia and raised in Germany, she has explored her sense of belonging and contradictory aspects from an early age. Gulić studied tailoring and fashion design. She is inspired by the complexity of being - the layers, levels, and dimensions of life. She explores the relationship between clothing as object, body, and space within the context of identity, integrating profound themes such as philosophy, cosmology, meditation, and indigenous traditions. The wild nature - an integral aspect of identity - allows her to question instinct and intuition, exploring the sensual essence of being a woman while finding her belonging in nature as she turns toward the presence of the feminine. The central element of her research - the circular skirt characterized by the experience of a center - guides her to a metaphorical ´space in between`. A vibrant space that blurs the boundaries between tangible experiences and imaginative narratives, allowing her to reveal fragility and vulnerability while contrasting with the cultural aspects of an accelerated society. In solitude with nature's silence, she develops mixed media installations, integrated as scenery for bodily expression - which she refers to as 'hidden performance'. The resulting captures ´moments of now` characterize her visual storytelling by imparting a sense of timeless fragments within an organic cosmovision.