Featuring RU artist in residence Jana Zatvarnická in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Jana Zatvarnická, born and raised in Eastern Europe, often travels the world to visit various native living ecosystems that inspire her to work. By always searching beyond herself, she discovers their origins and their directions of growth, which also gives her the space to ground herself. She inspects them with her touch and material transformations. In her works, she connects the haptics and the optics, in the wide range of their reverse qualities. It is best to see her works in person to experience the energy and the rare fragility of the remnants of the process. It depicts not only the entrance to its core but everything that is surrounded. Within the process, she also creates new types of symbols; something in between prints, empty spaces, gestures and luminous matter. With this artistic approach, the creation of new, undiscovered categories emerges, which she believes is the fundamental goal of understanding one’s integral belonging. (Text credit: Mgr.Art Matúš Novosad, PhD).
Jana’s work was recently featured in the group exhibition, “Transitory Gestures” at RU in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, curated by RU Curator Data Chigholashvili.
We are thrilled to present our artists in residence through intimate interviews which delve into their character, works and relationship with this city!
