HANA MILETIĆ

Hana Miletić was born in Zagreb in 1982.
In 2005 she obtained a Master in Art History and Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. The same year she enrolled for a Bachelor, and Master, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. During her studies, she spent one semester at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Today she works as a research fellow and guest lecturer at the Antwerp Academy where she is conducting a research project in the visual arts.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions:

• 2010. Mirage (Portraits), Galerija MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia
• 2010. Mirage (Portraits), Galerija VN, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2010. Mirage (Portraits), Galerija Modulor, Center za kulturu Trešnjevka, Tjedan nijemog filma, Zagreb
• 2010. 45. Zagrebački salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
• Places to Be, Human Cities Festival, Bruxelles, Belgium
• I Avoid Places Where I’m Expected, Galerija Galženica, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2009. Presentation of the Croatian Selection at the XIV Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
• 2009. XIV Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje, FYR Macedonia
• 2009. Eventi, Arte Contemporanea in Sabina, Fara, Toffia, Farfa, Bocchignano
• 2009. Except, Bologna
• 2008. Mirage, Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2008. Various Photographs, curated by Tim Barber, New York Photo Festival, New York
• 2007. International Biennial Supermarket of Art VI/2 - (im)mortal love, Warszawa
• 2007. Projekt Insight, Antwerpen
• 2007. Projekt Dokumenti, Galerija MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia

 

Artist statement

On Mirage series

A 'mirage', defined as a deception or an optical illusion, suggests a shift in our experience of reality, especially regarding visual information. The optical illusion shows a non-existing thing but is at the same time the product of something that actually exists.

Mirage is a collective title for various series of photographs and videos with the same subject matter. The body of work dates back to 2007 and continues until today as a work in progress. The series are divided into three pictorial genres: portrait, landscape and still life. With this categorization I would like to establish a dialogue between traditional, historical photography and my own work, and analyze certain canons adapted from art history (painting).
These series are documentary and address cultural identity. Cultural identity as the identity of a group, a culture or an individual belonging to that group or culture is a research field in which I can examine the identity of the recorded locations as well as my own identity. Most of the works were realized in the urban areas of Brussels and Zagreb, two working and living addresses.

Contact

www.hanamiletic.com
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