In search of emotion at the intersection of everyday life, fashion and art

Sara’s art features both quality and highly sophisticated aesthetics, especially visible through her analogue photography work. As a fashion photographer, she is commited to exploring the subtleties of female beauty. At the same time, her women are gentle, strong, confident, raw, passionate and melancholic, reflecting Sara’s emotions and her self recognition. She perceives her artistic process as an emotional exchange between herself and the model, resulting in mutual empowerment. As such, her work provokes the boundaries of commercial fashion photography and is intertwined with a more personal, documentary approach that is nurtured through self-initiated projects.

Her reflective series document Sara’s fixations, obsessions and personal emotional development. This section of her work extends from self-portraiture to still nature and portraits of loved and lost ones. Often times, she tackles the painful and unpleasant in our everyday existence, aiming to transform the ruptures and turmoil into building blocks for personal, as well as artistic growth.

Exhibitions
And who are you? / R3a Gallery, Zagreb, 2018
Exam 2021 / Husremović, Mokos, Pukanić, Smuk - Gallery f8, 2021
On that day, everyone in the house was happy / Solo exhibition - Galženica Gallery, 2022
No Tears Left To Cry / You Have Been Seen / Organ Vida exhibition - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2022
Serija “Katarina” / Velikogorički salon - Galženica Gallery, 2022

Stalk online
Three acts of personal history staged in photography for Vizkultura.hr
By imitating the roles of mother and father through photographs, I create non-verbal communication between us for Nacional.hr
What does the experience of one "ghosting" look like through a series of photos? by Buro247.hr
Sara Pukanić: On nostalgia and childhood for Gloria.hr
Sara Pukanić about the exhibition, deceased parents and growing up for RTL.hr
Sara Pukanić: "I remember him as an extraordinary person." for Nova TV
The second solo exhibition of the young photographer Sara Pukanić by Journal.hr
Portrait of a fashion designer: Robert Sever for Journal.hr
Interview for Buro 24/7