MIRAN ŠABIĆ
Miran Šabić (b. 1986, Slovenia) is a Croatian visual artist. He has a PhD in Visual Arts for his work Archiving Memory at the Boundary of Life and Death. Through figurative drawing, printmaking, painting and art installation he is researching contemporary aspects of personal memory. Assuming that the person recapitulates life at point of death, Šabić is presenting the memories that one would perceive as most important in their lives. Also, he is interested in whether there is a universal model of the most important memories that can be applied to every person, and how to materialize those memories through art.
Instead of providing a literal representation of the narrated moment, or giving an illustration of a personal event, Šabić tells the story through objects used or seen in a particular situation. In that way it is up to the spectator to relate to the story and to use their own imagination to visualize the story. Without the presence of the spectator, who uses their recollections and imagination to imagine the narrated event, Šabić’s work cannot be completed.
Miran Šabić is Assistant professor, and Vice dean for student affairs at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He participated in many individual and group exhibitions from the USA to South Korea and won several awards for his work.