Pink stories
Ivana and Mare have been collaborating and exploring communication and cooperation models through various artistic approaches since 2018.
They met in 2001 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where they both graduated in 2008 majoring in painting. Both artists were born in 1983, Ivana in Vukovar, and Mare in Dubrovnik. They are members of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association and the Croatian Association of Visual Artists.
Since 1999 they have been exhibiting at group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Portugal, Greece, Vietnam, France, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Spain, South Korea) and taking part at international art residencies (Austria, Lithuania, Norway, Kirgizstan, Spain, Belgium, Romania, Macedonia) and film festivals (Germany, Austria, Japan, Switzerland).
Both artists live and work in Zagreb.
Feminine nouns
The artwork Pink stories is dedicated to female issues, primarily the issue of female heritage. The artwork resulted from the experience of long-term cohabitation with other household members in a confined space during the pandemic, which consequently turned the spotlight on the unspoken patterns of behaviour and compromised the implied division of roles and tasks.
Not at our place
What was used as a storyboard is the artwork from the cycle PoVEZivanje (Interconnection) made in 2020 using acrylic paints and wool and thread on canvas. By adding sound and time to the painted and embroidered motifs, we have created a series of animated films. We present you pink stories in a transmedia form.
Tiny boogeywoman
PINK - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - is a color that is a pale tint of red and is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century.
Mare Suzi
According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and romance. A combination of pink and white is associated with chastity and innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.
Pick up your socks!
Inspiration
