Lucija Jelić (1996) graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2022. She spent a year studying at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Complutense University in Madrid as part of the Erasmus programme. Since 2017, she has been regularly working in the field of visual arts, participating in exhibitions, sculpture workshops, colonies, festivals and educational programmes, and has received several awards and prizes for her work. She lives and works in Zadar.

The sculpture by Lucija Jelić is entitled Victory. It refers to the history of human race, to the constant demolition and construction, to the destructiveness of the human kind and the manipulativeness of political and public discourses. The composite sculpture ironically highlights the idea and form of the triumphal arch, which is one of the indicators of modern human characteristics such as competitiveness and violence. The sculpture takes the form of a partially collapsed and decayed triumphal arch, alluding to the ruins and remains of a civilisation that has nothing to look forward to in the current situation of immense social and environmental disparities.