Jana Hojstričová Retrospective
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4 Jana Hojstričová 5 European Journal of Media, Art & Photography Portfolio Retrospective Jana Hojstričová Retrospective doc. Mgr.art Jana Hojstričová, ArtD. (*1972, SK) Jana Hojstričová: Retrospective attitude, which she confronted with moments of women, fragments of was born in 1972 in Myjava /Slovakia/. She grad- sociology, psychology, theory of art their private environment, intimately uated in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jana Hojstričová finished a study but architecture and arts too. She familiar things. An application of a Bratislava. She works as a photographer and as a of photography at Academy of Fine asked questions in what way today´s small depth of field shows a sharp teacher. Since 1998 she has been teaching at the Arts and Design in Bratislava in society has been changing, what segment of reality, which indeed at Department of Photography and New Media at the mid nighties of 20th century. is a position and a role of today´s the same time sinks into expanded AFAD. So more than two decades she has woman, how can we characterize environment. Autobiographical As the author, she participated in a full range of filled her authorial artistic program, a term ´family´ and all the ways it features of individual photographs domestic and foreign exhibitions and photograph- which might not is so extensive, can exist nowadays. Therefore, if are entirely obvious. A way of taking ic festivals such as: Fotofest Houston, Month of but certainly is concentrated and we had to define artworks of Jana photographs and consequently a č Photography Bratislava, International Festival of focused. Every single project Hojstri ová in some way, maybe content statement of photography Young Photography in Ljubljana, International Pho- continues in something else that the best fits an imagination of invokes something, what possibly tography Festival in Łódź, Septembre de la Pho- former one, but at the same time interdisciplinary conjuctions, about is relating to a phenomenon of tographie, Lyone, Moisdela Photo a Paris in France. moves on into deeper interpretation an effort get into photography memory, calling to mind or removal In 2013 she was awarded as the Photographer of levels. At the beginning she used sociological aspects. Maybe a term of some moments from own lives. the Year, awarded by the Central European House to tend in her artistic production ´visual sociology´ defines quite Each photo solves a woman‘s of Photography, OZ FOTOFO, Photoport and the to the positions of subjective concisely her artistic production, personal hygiene thematically, her Association of Slovak Professional Photographers. document, she was interested on the other hand this term is not private world. These are classical in a situation of a woman of the quite balanced and equal with a themes from the history of art. In the art scene she entered in the 90s of the 20th today´s society and that is mainly creativity and uniqueness of the Many artists have shown their century. The main theme of her photographic through confrontation between artistic production. Through it interest in these regular female work is a body, which she puts into context with her intimate world and that public. all still it is possible to talk about rituals already in the past. However, the growing influence of consumer society on it. And so after 1989 she integrated interconnection of art, sociology, Jana Hojstričová does not repeat Currently she focuses her photographic creation into a wider stream of Slovak because a key content of her the view of a man on a woman, but on visual sociological interpretation of the state of authors/female artists, who were individual photography cycles is as an author of the 21st century today‘s family. interested, after years of communist always a man, his existence in this she notices women‘s corporeality, In 2010 she began to collaborate with a glass de- regime, in an identity and intimacy world. their biological needs but also their of women, in their sensuality and The first distinctive photography limitations. signer Palo Macho intensively on joint projects č with an author‘s photographic image in the glass. bodily/physical changes. Later she cycles of Jana Hojstri ová are two In the following years, she Since 2011 a series of solo exhibitions and curatori- focused her attention possibilities series called From seven to eight gave birth to two children al projects have been offered to them e.g.: they ex- of staged photography. It namely (2000) and From ten to a midnight and her world view changed hibited in the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, in enabled the author to release (2002). Time period of the both sequentially. It was performed in the international project „Body Talk“ in Denmark, from subjective perception of the titles refers to everyday activities the project titled Everyday (2005). in the curatorial project of the Slovak National Gal- world in direction to the more of women being executed in These photographs record the lery „Krv/Blood“ and a number of other exhibitions analytical approaches. Although she morning and evening. The author relationship of the author with in Slovakia and abroad. continued shooting photographs approaches to both topics through her first-born son. By the way of of her relatives and friends, still a subjective document, in which photoshooting and with a small [email protected] she developed more universal discovers a view of really intimate depth of field Hojstričová creates 6 Jana Hojstričová 7 European Journal of Media, Art & Photography Portfolio Retrospective an almost blurred image, which By photographic work titled „40 acts ephemeral and indefinite, just in 36“ Large in Small (2005) Jana like a childhood memory. Colour Hojstričová critically expresses photographs show a testimony towards to the enforcement of the relationship between the of opinion of the mass media mother and the child, about the communication advocacy. These chamber world, that is limited to a opinions influence the attitudes child‘s needs for a certain period and the values of the majority of the time. Poetic images of her society especially. Massive and child, small toys, his little living diverse media campaigns draw space, all this is an interpretation of attention to the life, which is such the mutual need of being together, a perfect and immensely delightful but at the same time they do not illusion. However, it is too far traumatize the public by the split of away from the real one. Fashion the woman‘s maternal and working magazines, advertisements draw roles. This polarizing aspect is just attention to things that are not not found in the photographs, important to life itself. But by our denominator and it is a periphery. equally, without emotions, symbols, staging. An extensive collection although this debate has been consumption of them, we become The periphery in our perception is rather realistically ´it is like that´. of photographs called “Family communicated to the public not part of a commodity carousel, on the edge of social interest and The year 2012 was in the Portrait” (2012) is somewhat seldom in recent years. At present, part of a very thoughtful business č the interest of society. Way of life artistic production of the author contrary to the cycle Hana. The Jana Hojstri ová has returned, strategy. Women become „the face in these days, life values, values especially intensive. In that author implements an analytical like bend back, to the themes that of a product“ in the advertising which are enforced to decrease a time she realized several crucial way of seeing at photographing of generated her initial parental duties. and fashion world very often, value of natural change of human photographic collections, which individual members of her family, Photography cycle titled Album becoming the brand, which sells. body, as well as a peripheral town she introduced in 2013 on her first which is concrete and objective. In of nature (2017) is a combination At the same time, her own identity and a country ever. The author serious independent exhibition this case the point is not standard of various life experiences of is being displaced and remains observes the body in its natural in the Gallery of Bratislava. family portraits with characteristic the author. Frequent visits to unrecognizable. This beauty market shape. She puts to it as a parallel A former artistic production features of face, but mainly portraits natural history museum and other affects the standards of the ideal so called ´territorial body´, which influenced mainly her collection of bodies. She leaves out a head museums along with her children of beauty in women in our real life can be found in outskirts of big of photographs Hana (2012). It as a basic identical moment of and spending time in particular fundamentally. In the photographs, densely populated areas, therefore concerned about time-lapse every human and concentrates her exposition influenced the character the author stages women dressed it is in a periphery of public interest project, which has not achieved its view at photographing of body. of these photos. However, Jana in tight translucent clothes made č about such a housing. An aesthetic final appearance. It does not have She follows a process of making Hosjtri ová‘s research focus was from plastic. The dresses are made aversion towards a deficient body exactly defined extension, number photographs, she mostly selects a associated with that. It was a in an ideal fitting size and they are, or residential area without a human and even not a date of finishing it. neutral background, and removes research of historical photographs of course, narrower than the body face turns into an ethic problem, The number of photographs will whatever surrounded narrations. of the 19th century, her interest dimensions of the photographed which overturns a ladder of values be gradually increased, so as life It concentrates viewer´s attention in their registration, archiving women.