Sabotage Painting

Shana Patry is a painter focusing on animals. She depicts surreal scenes as if suspended in time and silence, blending realistic animals with strange elements to create imaginary compositions. She aims to inspire the viewer in finding their own interpretation through their personal values and symbolism. Her hybrid practice in painting and digital arts combines traditional techniques with new technologies such as digital collage and databending. She enjoys integrating visual distortions into her work, such as glitches, pixels, and elements drawn from the iconography of old computers. For Shana, it feels as though technology is engulfing nature, like a parasite. Her painting techniques, specialized in hyperrealistic animal representations, stand in contrast to the sterile nature of machines and technological devices. She seeks to create immersive experiences and to renew the medium of painting by combining it with digital media. She is interested in duality, antonyms, contrasts, and oppositions, as well as the ambivalence between certainty and uncertainty, the cycle of life and death, and the traces of our existence. Inspired by nature and biology, She explores ecological dynamics, highlighting the role of humans in a technological ecosystem where technology shapes interactions between organisms and their environment.