Photography exhibition, 21.06.-01. 08. 2010, Museum-Gallery Center The Tower Veli Lošinj – Exhibition opening on Monday, 21st June 2010, at 9:00 PM

Related to the island of  Lošinj by birth and sensitivity, she graduated in Art History and German from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She has been engaged in photography for many years, as also in writing poetry (a collection of her poems under the title ‘Scale 1:100 000’ was published in 2004). Her photographs have been published in several magazines (‘Quorum’, ‘Metro’, ‘Zarez’, ‘Tema’) and they have appeared on the book covers published at Meandar Publishing House from Zagreb. As early as her first solo exhibition called “Birds on a Wire”, held in the Club “Gjuro” in Zagreb in 1999, she expressed her individual style which tends to distinctive fragmentation of shapes against blue background.

“I've Got Nothing to Lose but the Blues”, sings Gwen McCrae. Blues is much more than a type of music or music interpretation. Blues represents mood, melancholy, soul melting in the “big blue” of sadness and sweet and sour longing for the past, lost, unreachable. Aleksandra’s blues is Mediterranean blue; it evokes her childhood on the island, that dreaming look through the lashes which dissolves reality into a play of colours and shapes. Infinite variety of shades of the sea blue, along with wide horizon of the sea and strict geometrical structures of the Lošinj shipyard her father used to work in, represent her sensual inheritance. She would say: “Either I take night scene photos on ships which sail through the Thames, the Seine, ships in Hamburg harbour or simply scenes from the shopping centres and parking lots, shop windows in Paris reflected in a puddle after shower, it always remind me of seascapes, movement of waves, sun flickering on water and the Mediterranean sun”… (from the catalogue)