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"By questioning the role given to me, the position in which I am free to create a work of art in public space, where it acts in synergy with an "accidental" audience, I am also questioning my role of power. To which positions is the artist entitled (or not)? Is the artistic responsibility left out if one consciously manipulates the surroundings one works in? What happens when we put up a border in that surrounding, if we break someone's daily routine, someone's flow, just because we can? By putting up a wall on the running track I wish to question all of these positions. The wall is a kind of a simulacrum of the social reality. The curtailing of freedom and the imposing of borders becomes an everyday occurrence in which there is no reaction to them. Will we react when the border becomes real and solid?" (AZ)

Ana Zubak was born in Zagreb in 1982. She began her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2005 at the Department of Art Education. In 2008, she started her graduate studies of sculpture at the same Department and under the mentorship of Danijel Kovač. In 2009, she spent a semester at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest, at the Department of Visual Communication. She participated in several group exhibitions (City Fragments, Pravi put Gallery, Zagreb, 2007; The Archive of Simultaneous Times, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cultural Center, Vela Luka, 2007; Festival of MOZG, Gallery Aluminium, Mostar, 2007; Laboratory Exercises 1, UrbanFestival, Zagreb, 2008; Alluding, VN Gallery, Zagreb, 2008; Academy of Fine Arts Students’ Exhibition, Močvara Gallery, Zagreb, 2009; 49th Poreč Annale, Istrian Assembly Hall, Poreč, 2009) and workshops, among which are Constructing May 4th 1980, a workshop within the project Highway of Knowledge, Centre for Dramatic Art, 2007; Site specific, workshop with Mary Dritschel, 2008; Socially Engaged Projects, workshop with Andreja Kulunčić, 2008; Violence within Institutions towards Queer Identities and Practices, WoKolektiv, 2008; Narration and Visual Metaphors, workshop with Tina Gharavi, 2008.