Ana Šašić

You’ve just started at a new school again. You remember (or maybe you don’t) seeing your language on the street knowing it wasn’t make-believe. You don’t tell the other kids about it – they’ve seen the place on the news, and not the way you’d want them to. You remember the baggage empty and full and empty and full, landing under this strange scary sky that first time, the First Annual Misunderstanding Of The Function Of Backyards, The Day You Erased The Best Letters To Help Them Say Your Name. You’ll remember feeling confused, the aggressive questions in class ‘what’s your favourite season or sport’, the balloons somebody tied to the trees in your park so they don’t cut them down. You draw an imaginary land. You colour it in, like a flag, you give it a name.

Ana Šašić is a writer, photographer, and urban professional based in Toronto, interested in work exploring personal and collective meaning rooted in public space and the symbolism of the everyday. Her play This Coast Was New was performed at the Hamilton Fringe Festival 2022, and she has exhibited at Gallery 1313, John B. Aird Gallery, and the Geary Art Crawl. This year is her 30th anniversary of being new to Canada.

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Contact: ana.sasic2@gmail.com
Website: https://anavesna0.wixsite.com/anasasicphotography
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May 6th to May 28th, 2023
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto
Hallway Galleries, 2nd and 3rd floors

Artist Talk and Tour
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
11am & 1pm