Tea Curk Sorta studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where she graduated with a bache - lor's degree in 2007 and a master's degree in 2012. During her studies, she gained further training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The artist, who is concerned with the role of the individual in the world and in society, has created the spatial installation Transcendences for Krško Gallery, which consists of the series Women, Through Transition and the latest works from the series Self-Portraits.
The figures in the gallery space are positioned in three interconnected clouds of meaning. In the left apse are five of thirty figures from the series Women. The sculptures in this series have only a slight suggestion of identity. Unlike the figures in the presbytery, their arrangement is not evenly condensed, there is almost no interaction between them. We look at each figure individually and find out how it differs from the previous one. The drawing itself is also less condensed than in the next series, the sculptures are flatter. The artist asks questions about the individual, she is interested in how they are shaped by the present time, which dictates a new ethic of everyday life. The perception of social values has shifted. We vacillate between personal responsibility and the experience of helplessness. Defensively, we retreat into the private sphere and the family. According to Mirjana Ule, these values can be positive for society and the individual and lead to greater individual autonomy, but they can also be negative and lead to anomie (Ule, 2004).
