Emanuela Santini is Croatian based artist, born 1976 in Pula. She finished her BA at University of Rijeka, Department of Fine Arts and specialized in Printmaking. She has graduated with an MA in Fine Art at University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art in 2008 (MA Drawing). She has participated in many national and international group and solo shows and presented her installations and collaborative work. Santini is exploring an expanded notion of drawing, using sound; photography and video where relevant to create time-based sketches and glimpses into moments that have been captured by her own photo-camera.
Her recent work is mostly related to the memories of places, people and events closely linked to her everyday life. She is interested in narration, in telling the stories and her main concern is how to transfer a thought and an emotion into a visual diary in a variety of media. All of the images in her recent artworks are based on her private collection of photographs and have been used as a stage setting to bring back moments and to tell a story about personal relationships.
Emanuela lives in Rijeka and works as an tutor and technitian at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia.
'My practice is about memories of places, people and events; about everyday life and how an emotion can be transcribed into a visual narrative. Through drawing, collages and photography I isolate incidents, re-conveying them as a story. I take photographs incessantly and then carefully and systematically wade through them to find those that can be used as a stage setting to bring back moments, that conjure up drama's about relationships. I am concerned with questions about the representation of autobiographical moments, distortion and truth. I am interested in how new places can conjure up subjective memories and how the alien can feel familiar in uncanny ways.'
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