Ana Bathe (*Belgrade 1987) is a multi-disciplinary autodidactic artist currently living and working in Berlin. By assuming the roles of subject, photographer, painter, sculptor, set and costume designer the artist is able to produce intimate works without compromise. This meditative process of designing an imaginary world attempts to integrate the artist into the aforementioned microcosm and through a series of cathartic and spontaneous movements captures it on film and in photography. These sessions, while being irrevocably shaped by childhood experiences of war-trauma and subsequently as a refugee, yet retain an immense childlike curiosity, resulting in otherworldly self-portraits.
Her works aim to offer playful glimpses into a psyche’s glorious isolation. She is fueled by the need to look deeper into the nature of who we are, to capture the inner surreal and to encounter as many parts of ourselves as possible. Can one ever truly feel like they belong to a place, a place beyond the confining architecture of our own bones? How adaptable and malleable are we as beings? The works ultimately aim to seek and release these various identities within.
