Jana Stojakovic

My artwork is diverse by its topics as well as its forms of expression. Different media that I use, like painting, photography, video, installation, mostly depend on themes that demand by themselves a particular form of manifestation. My paintings usually show intimate and personal, inspired by dreams with inextricable symbolism. In painting, there is direct expression of brush on canvas. The reality of photography and installation is shifted and distorted, while video, which uses sound and moving image, is maybe the most complex. It usually contains elements of fantasy, a personal seal but also social and political connotation.
Regardless the media, there are a few topics which can be followed throughout my entire opus. Intertwined through the different works, the old ideas gradually arise in the new ones, in a sort of "morphing" where there are no clear borderlines and which goes in many directions.
The obsession with mannequins initiated a series of questions that refers to body, sexuality, identity, their fluidity, sex and gender roles; the question of social status on one hand and style on the other. Soon after, to the mannequins have been added masks, artificial parts of human body, prosthesis. "Josephine & Lilly" emerge...