Exhibition + Artist Talk │ I carried a pine cone in my backpack by Inia Herenčić at MAK Gallery
Friday 5 JUNE at 18:00
Welcome to an intimate and an intimate and deeply reflective exhibition by Croatian visual artist and photographer Inia Herenčić. Blending documentary photography with deeply personal reflection, Inia’s work moves through memory, movement, emotion and everyday fragments of life — exploring the quiet space between the outer world and our inner landscapes.
“The project I Carried a Pine Cone in My Backpack unfolds through an introspective and intuitive process in which the concept does not precede the work, but rather emerges through the acts of observation, movement, and emotional responses to everyday spaces. The photographs arise before rationalization, in an attempt to establish a space between light, body, movement, place, and feeling. Within this in-between space I explore the relationship between the external world and internal states — a terrain where perception, memory, and emotion meet before they are shaped into meaning.” — Inia Herenčić
About the Artist: Inia Herenčić
Inia Herenčić is a visual author and photographer. She has a master’s degree in photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (2023) and a degree in communication management (2012). Inia is a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists and the winner of several awards for scientific and artistic work. She participated in numerous international group exhibitions, realized photographic interventions in public space and realized solo exhibitions. Inia’s artistic practice is based on a documentary approach, with an emphasis on researching emotions, interpersonal relationships and the life of an individual in contemporary society. She gained pedagogical experience as a leader of creative workshops and assistant in higher education in the field of photography. She improved her skills at numerous international workshops, where she develops her personal visual language within the photographic medium. In her work, Inia continuously questions her own identities and roles as a mother, sister, traveler and artist.