Ivana Basic

Ivana Bašić (born 28 February 1976, Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian actress and artist who starred in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on 12 February 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor. She resides in London.Bašić has made a number of appearances on British television, notably Murphys Law and Silent Witness, as well as an earlier appearance in Casualty. In 2014 she appeared in an episode of the Channel 5 (UK) detective drama Suspects (TV series). She normally portrays a character with a central European background, an ability largely helped by her own Croatian background. She also portrayed Ilinka Blazevic in the second season of Happy Valley (2016). Also starred in the itv hit The BillBašić is an artist who spent most of her life in Belgrade, Serbia but left due to the lack of infrastructure there that could not support blossoming artists as the United States could. Growing up during the 90’s Basic experienced the awful travesty of war, witnessing the bombing of 1999, her default atmosphere was one of existential fear. In her later years Ivana used her experiences to inspire her work, focusing on the bare truth about societies perceptions of deformity and the human body. Basic says, “Our understanding of a “healthy” body is completely ideological”, and that the socially constructed idea of what a body should be is far from reality. In her pink and periwinkle wax forms Ivana depicts organic masses that look grotesque, “only because weve been socialized to perceive deformity as a failure to perform work and thus contribute to a capitalist system.”

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