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Adéla Janská: From Fascination to Identification

In November 2021, Czech artist Adéla Janská opened her solo show at IOMO Gallery in Bucharest, the chance not only to enjoy her work, but her charming presence as well. She was so kind to give feedback to my questionnaire and illustrate it with some images from her studio.     Sibi-Bogdan Teodorescu: Your work has been attached to a certain form of feminism, according to sources as thesomethingmachine.com , for instance; do you identify with? In my opinion your pictures are more of a synthetic image of the woman as an icon or an emblem, since their body recall rather a sort of reshaping into something close to sculpture and patterns.  Adéla Janská: I cannot say that I have been identifying with it. To be honest , if is not so  essential for me. On one side, it is interesting to observe how my work is interpreted and at which context it is involved. On the other hand, the crucial thing is my activity at the studio. For me, the process is more important than it'