Transcendence

Ana Jagodic was born in 1992 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With her painting opus, she presents herself under the pseudonym Ana à Deux. She participated in several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, exhibiting some of her conceptual works at the OpenArt-Biennial of Contemporary Art in Sweden and Ostrale Biennale, the third-largest show for contemporary art in Germany. 2015 received the Essl Art Award and was showcased at 31. Graphic Biennale in Ljubljana. She completed her graduate studies in 2021 at the Academy for visual arts (Ljubljana) and, in 2022, received an MFA with honors from the Academy for Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. At the Faculty of Arts, she attended a study program for advanced training and, in 2017, received a certificate of pedagogical-pedagogical education for professionals in primary and secondary schools.

Ana Jagodic's painting practice is defined by a framework of individual "poetic truth," and precise artistic articulation of this subjective reality seems to be an essential motivation for her artistic practice.˝

The artworks of Ana Jagodic, an artist of the younger generation, can be included in the field of abstract art. However, the notion of abstraction in connection with her paintings does not make sense within a limited, historically defined artistic phenomenon but as a fundamental painting question. Her abstract paintings may be interpreted on two levels. The first one is formally aesthetic, and the second is emotionally subjective. Their antagonism manifests itself as a desire to achieve a formal notion of beauty and a desire for transcendence and the sublime.

In defining the aesthetic in fine arts, conceptions such as harmony, proportion, and form are used. These important notions express qualities functioning as procedures and responses of an artist in the making of the artwork. The appearance of the effects they define is material in nature, whereby the viewer physically perceives them with the help of the senses through colors, shapes, rhythm, and proportions. It is the "real" of an image, which is self-sufficient and autonomous.