Artist's Notes.

Ana Bilankov

Born in 1968 in Zagreb, Croatia, lives and works in Berlin.

Studied History of Art and German Language and Literature in Zagreb, Croatia and in Mainz, Germany. She graduated from the University of Zagreb. Studied Art Photography in Wiesbaden and completed postgraduate studies 'Fine Art in Context' at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has realised her works in media such as photography, installation and video. She is one of the founders and members of Berlin based group 'Kunstcoop©', which works on the borderline between art, art mediation, communication and research. She has exhibited in Croatia, Germany and UK.

Contact: abilankov@web.de

Sweet Home - Stories:

Stir = rise from sleep.

Trying to stir the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Bristol
connected with sugar production I started to stir my own personal history of displacement, migration and nomadism. The interrelationship between inner and outer space & time became the subject.

Moving images as a place of exchange of many stories and layers. It is about something that isn't there, that's displaced. Presence and absence in the same time.

Constructed world somewhere between a dream, reality and historical /
personal memory.

Repetition of circular moving. Ritualised metaphor of desire.

Coffee overflowing the rim. Saturated body pukes its history.

The fragile form of sugar crystals builds the geometry of Sweet Home.

Ana Bilankov