Tunnel, hole, pipe

Inspired by Gilliam’s dystopian environments, Ružica Dobranić’s work Tunnel, Hole, Pipe starts from the hidden, the repressed and often neglected. She transforms ventilation pipes into metaphors of parallel worlds, into systems that simultaneously connect and separate, hide and reveal. They are not just material objects, but signs of hidden flows, those invisible networks that define both space and the body.
The installation’s starting point is the author’s practice of “everyday archaeology” – the exploration of fragments of reality that surface when approached with curiosity, intuition and sensory attention. Scents, light signals, tactile stimuli and sound interventions transform the space into a field of perceptual temptations in which external observation and internal questioning are simultaneously activated.

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IMPRESSUM

Artist: Ružica Dobranić
Text: Dora Lučić
Curators: Nikolina Vucković, Dora Lučić
Photography: Juraj Vuglač
Support: “Kultura nova” Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
Sponsored by: Medvedgrad Brewery

Biography

Ružica Dobranić was born in Zagreb in 1989. In 2013, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, majoring in graphics, in the class of prof. dr. art Mirjana Vodopija.
She actively exhibits in Croatia and abroad. The starting point of her work are memories and stories that do not follow a linear course, but create different forms, labyrinths and structures. Through drawings, objects, spatial installations and environments, she explores themes of the hidden and repressed.
In addition to her independent artistic work, she is involved in illustration, scenography and pedagogical work. She has been a long-time artistic associate of the Croatian National Television’s children and youth program and the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
She is a member of the Croatian Society of Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU).