Mimara Museum, Zagreb
2004
Twelve Heliotransfers were presented at the Mimara Museum, Zagreb (2004), and at the Gallery Kortil, Rijeka (2007). After the public introduction of Heliotransfers, I felt the need to take them into virgin places: Veternica Cave, Green Cave, Blue Cave, and Medvedina Cave (2005-2007). These projects were documented at the Gallery St. Krševan, Šibenik (2007) entitled “Lovers of the light”.
Veternica Cave, Zagreb County
2005
A cave is an archetype of a shelter, a physical, psychological and emotional refuge. Sanja and a team of photographers, speleologists and contemporary dancers enter the Veternica cave near Zagreb ...They install two Heliotransfers on the cave ceiling, illuminate them gently and listen to the sound of water dripping from the ceiling of the cave... Three following days are spent in playing, filming, and writing.
Green Cave, Island Vis
2007
At the top of the Green Cave dome there is an opening through which sunlight penetrates. On the summer solstice, the beam of light falls vertically right in the middle of the cave. A Heliotransfer is attached to the top and hovers just over the sea. It absorbs and irradiates light in a playful interaction with sun and water.
Blue Cave, Island Biševo
2008
In 2008 Sanja stages her first underwater exhibition in Blue Cave on the Biševo Island. Twelve Heliotranfers float about 12 meters under the sea in the Blue Cave central hall. The visitors can view the sculptures from a boat with a glass bottom. The more courageous could dive into the sea and interact with the Helios more intimately.
Momotaro Cave, Island Megijima, Japan 2010
“Using what exists to create what is to be”
Soichiro Fukutake
"I used the Momotaro legend in the cave I was offered as a setting. I brought the wire mesh from Croatia and spent four weeks on the Island among smiling elderly people, modelling bodies, and remembering…"
Human shapes suddenly appear in the Momotaro cave. Water is dripping from the cave ceiling on their wire epidermis and moistening the sparkling mesh. Bodies of shining water droplets are slowly moving around their centre. Delicate fog is moving around this interplay of transparent anatomy and the sound of falling droplets.
Momotaro is a force that heals and gives grace. It is about revitalising and refreshing the energy of freedom and beauty. Sanja dedicates her work to the souls trapped by the «ogre» energy, opening a possibility of liberation.
