Ana Vivoda is a Croatian visual artist and educator who is currently working as Full Professor of Art Education at the University of Zadar, Croatia.

During her time in ´ace she explored the relations between the body as a subtle and powerful creative force, the stories or poems that we cultivate like living organisms to give form to our dreams and desires and the fabric as a second layer of the skin that is weaved with the same delicacy as a text.

Ana research fields also include print-based art practices dealing with questions of identity, feminist or environmental issues, while her art educational projects nourish collaborative and participatory aspects of art.  Her work has a self- referential character and the reoccurring characteristic of an imprint, a play with and around expanded printmaking practices.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I contemplate spaces of closeness and sensitivity, where intimacy meets the quiet freedom of vulnerability.

It conjures the atmosphere of bedrooms—sites of touch and retreat, resonant with layered affections: the tenderness of childhood before sleep, the weightless state of rest and introspection, the pulse of desire and sensibility.

It becomes a shelter for wandering thoughts—those we dare to utter and those that remain unspoken, heavy with loss and longing, folded away like unfinished letters never sent.

Worn fragments of nightgowns, emptied of the body, drift through the space, entwined with poetic texts and objects bearing printed pairs of hands. Tangled in unraveling threads that carry sentences left incomplete, they speak of the relational nature of being and of a fragile, tender interdependence.