Clockwise (everything slips through our fingers)

About the Photographer

Zibelnik, Ana

Slovenian, b. 1995

Ana Zibelnik deals extensively with topics of time consciousness and mortality—how the fear of death deeply affects our perceptions of time. Zibelnik also delights and grapples with “possibilities of impossibility” in daily life. She often draws on hidden literary works to inform her practice.
Zibelnik has said, “It has never been other photographs that would spark my wish to photograph, but words.” “Many of my photographs were called into being by […] earworm-like sentences, sometimes full passages of books that stuck in my head—with or without context (more often without)…”
Zibelnik received MoCP’s 2020 Snider Prize honorable mention. She completed the MA Film and Photographic Studies program at Leiden University (2020); and a BA in Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (2018). She works and lives in The Hague, Netherlands.