About — Jasenka Stekić

I experience art as a space of freedom, exploration and inner movement. In my work I gravitate between layers of energy that flow through the visible and invisible spectrum. I'm drawn to what we can see and what we can only feel — vibration, presence, movement, emotion, and the energy that exists between people, nature and space.

I don't try to render reality literally. I'm interested in the emotion reality awakens, and the trace that remains once we step away from it.

My painting happens intuitively. The movements of my brush are layered, free and untamed — an extension of my thought. I don't always try to control the mark left on canvas. I let strokes, colour, texture and chance encounters of material collide and build a new reality.

Between opposites

Contradictions I turn into art

My creative work is also a way of resolving my own inner conflicts. In every piece, the contradictions I carry within me meet one another. I don't try to hide them. I turn them into a painting. Into a brushstroke. Into a layer. Into a form. Into metal. Perhaps it's through creating that I find a way for what is in conflict within me to exist in balance. That's why art, for me, isn't only about making something beautiful — it's an inner dialogue.

Strength

Vulnerability

Control

Freedom

Order

Chaos

Tenderness

Aggression

Protection

Liberation

My motto

"I don't look for peace by removing my contradictions. I look for it by turning them into art."

Every brushstroke is a thought seeking its answer. Every layer is a trace of something that came before it. Every sculpture is an attempt to give the invisible a body. In that, I find myself.

And perhaps that's exactly my message — that coincidences don't happen by accident. That what we find often leads us exactly where we need to be.

In art, as in life, we sometimes don't find what we were looking for. We find what we needed.