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Velika Janceva

Date of birth 20.Jun.80
Place of birth Kavadarci, Macedonia
Country of residence United Kingdom

I am interested in the notion of the world as a stage, where human activity creates a tale of contradictions and mystery.
My paintings are a product of certain kind of negotiation between the meaningful and the absurd, the personal and the objective perception of the world, which appears to be in a struggle with its reality. A world that is at once, invented yet real, amazing yet disturbing, settled but ready to collapse, organized within it’s chaos, absurdity and isolation.

I am fascinated by the role that a space can play in the development of a certain story, which is at a point of its culmination. In many ways I have used the space as a main indicator of the psychological state of the people and the animals that inhabit it, their inability to dominate the shifting, reciprocal relationship with the environments in which they find themselves.

Parallel to the figurative work I am also working on small scale paintings in which I am investigating the idea of home as an abstract and internal landscape. These paintings started off as a quest for freedom from the literal ideas and investigation into the abstract relationship between colour, brush mark and drawing techniques.
More recently they have become another transmitter for my need to see and re-experience the past as present, a distant landscape as something very close and vibrant in its existence.

Exhibitions:
Solo
08/04/05 to 23/04/05 “Basecamp” Spitalfields, London
08/00-09/00 “The Conway Hall” Holborn, London
12/97-09/97 “Museum-Gallery Negotino” Macedonia
08/97-09/97 “Museum-Gallery Kavadarci" Macedonia
Group
02/07-03/07 “Back to Hackney” Amp, London
01/07-02/07 “Inertia” Second Space Gallery, London
12/06-12/06 “Christmas Art fair” Empire Gallery, London
12/06-12/06 “The Peace camp” Brick Lane Gallery, London
07/06-07/06 “There’s No Place Like Home” Hackney Empire, London
04/05-05/05 “Shelved” The Octopus Studios, Athens
06/04-07/04 “Peep Show” Warsaw projects, Manchester

Exhibitions Marmite Prize Invite, 25.Nov - 30.Nov.08, Studio 1.1, '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects


www.velikajanceva.co.uk

 

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