About Sanja
Sanja Sašo was born on December 31, 1963, in Reutlingen, Germany. She studied graphics and sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Stuttgart. Actions and exhibitions since 1983. Sašo intervenes in authentic spaces (hills, waterfalls, caves – natural parks, cultural and architectural heritage) where she puts the human being in an archetypal context. Her artwork is presented in galleries, museums, and private collections in Europe and abroad. She lives and works in Zagreb and on the Dalmatian islands.
From the year 2003, Sanja Sašo has been sculpting bodies out of wire meshing. She shapes the life-size female and male bodies the weight of which does not exceed one to two kilograms, believing in the healing and revitalizing power of the human touch, and she calls them HELIOTRANSFERS – the carriers of light.
If the human body is made out of the material predicted to be wasted and to vanish, hanging on a thin vertical line thus holding its center, then light is given as the gift to become a fine weave of the ethereal glow of kindness, dignity, beauty, and love. But the price of that is a daily fight for transparency, emptiness, movement…awareness.
The special part of her work is the installation of Heliotransfers into caves, the very heart of the Earth (since 2007). The entrance with the sculptures in Veternica, Blue Cave, and Green Cave was a trilogy.
With these artworks, Sanja calls attention to recovering our inside and silence as the opposite to a threatening dispersion and devastation of today.
