Born 1996, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Breath

Asta Cink is a visual artist with roots in dance and acting. Until 2014 she was active in the performing arts profession when in 2015 her path led to the visual arts. She studied at Fotok and the Friedl Kubelka School of Artistic Photography with Anja Manfredi, among others. In addition to numerous exhibition activities at home and abroad and the publication of her first book at the Verlag Fotohof Salzburg, Cink completed the course for cultural management at the Institute for Cultural Concepts 2022. In her work, she explores the boundaries between analog and digital. Asta Cink relates herself to the space surrounding her and uses the means of photography to inscribe herself in the material in a ritualistic and condensed form. In the process, the photographic camera becomes friend, adversary, shield, mouthpiece, and pauses for seconds. As a former actress and dancer, she is influenced by the examination of gender, role models and identities. "Gegenüber Mir" is a picture story that uses photography as a way of self-questioning and self-assurance. The photos, individual images, as if detached from performative processes, photographed with grainy B/W film, appear as traces of a human existence, as if in a laboratory independent of any social context. The Barthesian "it-is-as-it-was," which belongs causally to every analog photograph as a reference to finitude, is also a pervasive motif in Cink's pictures.
Asta Cink is a visual artist with roots in dance and acting. Until 2014 she was active in the performing arts profession when in 2015 her path led to the visual arts. She studied at Fotok and the Friedl Kubelka School of Artistic Photography with Anja Manfredi, among others. In addition to numerous exhibition activities at home and abroad and the publication of her first book at the Verlag Fotohof Salzburg, Cink completed the course for cultural management at the Institute for Cultural Concepts 2022. In her work, she explores the boundaries between analog and digital. Asta Cink relates herself to the space surrounding her and uses the means of
photography to inscribe herself in the material in a ritualistic and condensed form. In the process, the photographic camera becomes friend, adversary, shield, mouthpiece, and pauses for seconds. As a former actress and dancer, she is influenced by the examination of gender, role models and identities.