Jana Farmanova – Strong Sun II

Jana was Born in Nitra, Slovakia, in 1970. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She now works as a freelance artist. Her work is followed by known Slovakian curators and art historians Peter Vanous, Ivana Mancolova, Barbora Geržova, and Beata Jablonska. She is represented in national galleries and museums, including galleries like Korkus in Bratislava, Vemon in Prague and Kubik in Porto. Her works have been shown in around thirty solo exhibitions and she has also participated in noted group exhibitions in her home country and abroad: Bratislava, Brno, Zlin, Nitra, Prague, Vienna, Arles, Oslo, Buxelles. Jana lives and works in her native Nitra.
The main force behind her creativity are her personal memories, absorbed and stored emotions related to certain people and events, frequently from her family circle Her paintings are visual metaphors filled with symbols and attributes that she takes from art history and literature, as well as from segments of natural phenomena. She interrogates identities, uncertainties, fear and anxiety as factors of contemporary hopelessness and openly plays with melancholy, imagination and dream as rich sources of creative material.