O meni — Jasenka Stekić

Umetnost doživljavam kao prostor slobode, istraživanja i unutrašnjeg kretanja. U svom radu gravitiram između slojeva energije koja protiče kroz vidljive i nevidljive spektre. Zanimaju me ono što možemo da vidimo i ono što samo osećamo — vibracija, prisustvo, pokret, emocija i energija koja postoji između čoveka, prirode i prostora. 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.

Ne pokušavam da stvarnost prenesem doslovno. Zanima me emocija koju stvarnost budi i trag koji ostaje kada se od nje udaljimo. 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.

Moje slikarstvo nastaje intuitivno. Pokreti moje četkice su slojeviti, slobodni i razuzdani — produžetak su moje misli. Ne pokušavam uvek da kontrolišem trag koji ostaje na platnu. Dopuštam da se potezi, boja, tekstura i slučajni susreti materijala međusobno sudaraju i grade novu stvarnost. 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.

Između suprotnostiBetween opposites

Suprotnosti koje pretvaram u umetnostContradictions I turn into art

Moje stvaralaštvo je istovremeno i način da rešavam sopstvene unutrašnje konflikte. U svakom radu susreću se suprotnosti koje nosim u sebi. Ne pokušavam da ih sakrijem. Pretvaram ih u sliku. U potez. U sloj. U formu. U metal. Možda upravo kroz stvaranje pronalazim način da ono što je u meni u konfliktu počne da postoji u ravnoteži. Zato umetnost za mene nije samo stvaranje lepog. Ona je unutrašnji dijalog. 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.

SnagaStrength

RanjivostVulnerability

KontrolaControl

SlobodaFreedom

RedOrder

HaosChaos

NežnostTenderness

AgresijaAggression

ZaštitaProtection

OslobađanjeLiberation

Moj motoMy motto

„Ne tražim mir tako što uklanjam svoje suprotnosti. Tražim ga tako što ih pretvaram u umetnost.“ "I don't look for peace by removing my contradictions. I look for it by turning them into art."

Svaki potez četkice je misao koja traži svoj odgovor. Svaki sloj je trag nečega što je bilo pre njega. Svaka skulptura je pokušaj da nevidljivo dobije telo. U tome pronalazim sebe. 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.

I možda je upravo to moja poruka — da se slučajnosti ne događaju slučajno. Da nas ono što pronalazimo često vodi upravo tamo gde treba da budemo. 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.

U umetnosti, kao i u životu, ponekad ne pronalazimo ono što smo tražili. Pronalazimo ono što nam je bilo potrebno. In art, as in life, we sometimes don't find what we were looking for. We find what we needed.