Sandra Sterle
Reviving grandfather is a reflection on limitation of abstraction and capacities of keeping wholeness of life. Time deconstruction, archiving and memory landscaping in reconstruction through some bizarre attempts to revive a person and restore our own memory. The image of a man, the story of his life are a form of fragmented memory in progress. It becomes the impossible task of writing the linear history.
Sandra Sterle was born in 1965, teaches at the Department of Film and video at the Academy of Arts of the University of Split, Croatia. In 1989 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and continued her education at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1995/96 (class of Nan Hoover). From 1991 – 2000 she lived and worked in Amsterdam, where she received scholarships and awards for her work from BKVB (Fonds voor beeldende kunsten), AFK (Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten). From 2000 to 2001 worked and exhibited in various places and institutions in the USA. (Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Franklin Furnace Foundation, Location 1 gallery, Artistspace and Parsons Collage of Art and Design). She has been exhibiting independently and participating in international exhibitions, artist-in-residence programs and film festivals since 1995. Her work spans a range of media from film to performance, photography, installation and interactive projects. Exhibitions include major retrospective exhibitions of Croatian experimental film and video art, such as “Frame by Frame”, “Personal Cinema Program”, “Insert” and the Dutch retrospective “A Short History of Dutch Video Art”.