Ivana Mancic

“I build surfaces where darkness, texture and light meet. Through layers, repetition and relief, I explore the fragile spaces between stillness and mov”

I am a Berlin-based contemporary artist working primarily with textured, relief-based painting and mixed media. I use acrylic, modelling paste, pigment and metallic elements to build tactile surfaces through layering, repetition and an intuitive physical process. My recent work is characterised by a reduced palette of black and bronze, circular forms and surfaces that evoke erosion, lunar landscapes and geological structures. Light plays an important role in my work, revealing different details across the relief and metallic areas as the viewer changes position. Through my practice, I explore the tension between darkness and light, structure and imperfection, stillness and movement. I am interested in creating works that reveal themselves gradually and invite slower, more attentive looking.