Clockwise (everything slips through our fingers)
Maker
Zibelnik, Ana
Slovenian, b. 1995
Date2019
MediumInkjet print
Dimensionsoverall: 14 in x 16 3/8 in
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by the Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider Prize
Object number2020:70
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About the ArtistAna Zibelnik deals extensively with topics of time consciousness and mortality—how the fear of death deeply affects our perceptions of time. Zibelnik also delights and grapples with “possibilities of impossibility” in daily life. She often draws on hidden literary works to inform her practice.- Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider Prize
Zibelnik has said, “It has never been other photographs that would spark my wish to photograph, but words.” “Many of my photographs were called into being by […] earworm-like sentences, sometimes full passages of books that stuck in my head—with or without context (more often without)…”
Zibelnik received the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s 2020 Snider Prize honorable mention. She completed the MA Film and Photographic Studies program at Leiden University (2020); and a BA in Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (2018). She works and lives in The Hague, Netherlands.
