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Hana Selena Sokolović (b. 1999, Vienna) is a visual artist and researcher raised in Belgrade and currently working between the Balkans and the Netherlands. She studied Photography and New Media at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague and holds a Master’s degree in Photography & Society from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Hana’s work focuses on memory, emotional inheritance, and post-conflict subjectivity, moving between photography, text, and moving image. Her film Dear Orchid premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2026 and the project continues to develop through a series of solo and group exhibitions, including ‘Ured za fotografiju’ at SPOT Gallery in Zagreb, SKC in Kragujevac, Kranj FotoFestival, Rotterdam Photo Festival, and Photogallery f64. She is a selected artist of the FUTURES Photography Platform 2026, nominated by Organ Vida. 

Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked with children in educational and socially engaged contexts, experiences that continue to inform her collaborative approach in her artistic practice.

Artist’s Instagram and Website.

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1. – 3. Dear Orchid, film stills, 2025.; 4. – 5. Dear Orchid, installation view, Ured za Fotografiju, Galerija Spot, Zagreb, 2025, Photo by: Ivan Buvinić
Artist statement

My work engages with the ways identity is shaped through memory, emotional inheritance, and the afterlives of conflict within the post-Yugoslav context. Personal experience takes shape in relation to histories that remain partial, unresolved, and unevenly transmitted, persisting through images, stories, and everyday relations.

I work with inherited material, particularly family archives, the absence of photographs, fragments, and accounts that do not form a coherent whole. These materials are approached as conditions through which memory is mediated and reconfigured across time. They do not stabilize the past, but mark its ongoing presence, shaping what can be seen, remembered, orfelt.

The post-conflict space emerges as both a societal and political condition and an intimate, embodied terrain, where inner conflict,inherited emotion, and different historical narratives coexist. The female experience, together with themes of sisterhood and girlhood, appears as a set of relations through which intimacy, care, and proximity are negotiated, shapedby shared histories and their uneven transmission.

Often beginning with photography or text as a point of research, I have recently expanded my practice into hybrid forms of film, sound, video performance, and installation. This mix of media allows me toexplore storytelling situated between documentary and fiction, engaging with narrative as both a structure and a rupture. I am interested in the space where theweight of violence encounters poetic form, and in how stories unfold, falter, and fragment in their telling.

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