Jan Durina’s photographs are sleepy images full of symbolism, sensuality, and subconscious meanings. They are portraits of emotional states, sudden shocks, and unending hours of insomnia. Each of the photographs is an analysis of the nature, dynamic, and character of specific moods. A story constructed through a precise composition, a pedantic selection of textures, details, and accents, through the staged gestures of the models. In Durina’s photographs one can hear the song of goddesses turned into birds and the cry of fallen angels as well as the emptiness of a soul seized by insanity. Most of the works presented at F.A.I.T. come from the artist’s most recent series, Dark Torment Almost Black.

 

 

Jan Durina (born 1988, Žilina)

Jan Durina is a Slovak visual artist working primarily with photography. His images are mirrors of his own inner reality, autobiographical maps of his physical and mental location. Fascinated by the nature and natural absurdity of life itself, Durina explores his tense feelings in his images and takes us on a feral, emotive, visual, and conceptual journey through his contrast-filled world. From this, you can hear silent screams of broken beauty or be charmed by the still gestures of an anxiety that is domesticated but cruel.

 

 

 

JAN DURINA

SOMETIMES I FIGHT SOMETIMES I GIVE UP

Curators: Magda Kownacka & Gaweł Kownacki

 

Grand opening: 20.05.2012; 7 p.m.

Galeria F.A.I.T., ul. Pijarska 5