J Nezna

ʝ. Nezna (Ceuta, Spain. 1985). The past is not fixed. The past dances. Recovering experiences from my past serves as an act of meditation, in the search for the expression of concepts such as alienation and claustrophobia.
I spent most of my life in Ceuta, a small Spanish territory in the North of Africa, which is only connected through land with Morocco via one of the world´s most conflictive borders. The rest of the city is surrounded by both the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean, meeting in the strait of Gibraltar. I reflect about the sea, a ruthless wall keeping us imprisoned inland and yet the only way out, provoking a love-hate relationship with my roots: the sun, the beaches, the fishing tradition and the stillness of time in a place of permanent inactivity.

*2004-2009. Master's degree in Fine Arts. University of Granada, Spain.

*2009-2011. Advertising Graphics and Graphic Design. Arts & Crafts School, Granada.

Group Exhibition
The Grant Bradley Gallery. (Bristol)
August. 2015

- Curio•sea•ty
Exhibition, Group Show
East Street Arts, Patrick Studios
Project Space, St Mary´s Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH
29th March - 11

- Gioconda Project: The Big Mural.
Group show in Azuqueca de Henares,
Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha. (Drawing)
13 January 2015 - 29 January 2015

2014
- Gioconda Project: The Big Mural.
Group show in W3 Gallery,
London. (Drawing)

- B´ELLAS.
Group show in La Sala,
Ceuta, Spain. (Painting and drawing)

- From Sea To You – Del Mar Para Ti.
Exhibition at Poca Gallery,
Spain, 19th of December. “The whiting biting the tail”
Exhibition of postcards that explore the relationship
between art and the sea, with more than one hundred
artists. Organised by Lorna Barrowclough and Hondartza
Fraga as part of their project Curio•sea•ty. (drawing)