Ana Sluga

Triptych I

2016, acrylic and spray on canvas, 150cm × 120cm

In recent years, Ana Sluga has been increasingly painting the material world that is already obsolete due to the rapid development of production processes, and as such, has nostalgic value. Exploring the visual complexity of a given object, the artist transforms its univocality, giving it a range of semantic and symbolic significance. To do this, she often subtly uses the technique of acrylic and spray on canvas, and the process of isolating various small items and giving them such prominence that they become monumental symbols. Nonetheless, they remain fragile, while their significance is always ambiguous, imbricated in allusion and suggestions and dependent on the viewer’s emotional and intellectual sensibility, e.g. their ability to experience the alienation of an object as the universal state of human existence.

Ana Sluga (1981, Ljubljana) attended the Hero Janez Hribar Primary School in Stari trg pri Ložu and the High School for Design and Photography in Ljubljana. In 1999, she enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, graduating in 2004 from the Department of Painting and pursuing an M.A. in painting in photography in Ljubljana and at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Since 2007 she has been registered as an independent worker in culture. She has received various professional awards and has participated in a number of selection and solo exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad since 2003. Web: http://www.anasluga.si/