Artist Statement

Justyna Zaklina:

     My work is dealing mostly with human body parts and fragility. Cutting lines, over moderately realistically painted bodies, construct new human evolved body, the body that will not deteriorate so easily. My figures threaten to disappear into geometrical abstract, as each of us easily disappears. The form is cut and held together by lines which represent ongoing life. The lines are echoes of past, present and future movement, which is essential to human life. My interest in the structure and form within the painting is a search for that almost tactile memory of flesh, so that the memory will last forever captured on canvas.

     The theme of isolation has been present in my work now for some time. It is a psychical feeling I experience, a feeling I probably gained while moving from place to place, from country to country. Computer age and the problem of coping with other humans added to the silence in direct contact with them. Painting is a search for my own reality.

     In all my works humans are presented alone often floating on canvas. The fact that most of my works show people without heads adds to the overwhelming feeling of being anonymous and alone in the huge ocean of bodies. The structure and form within the painting describe the feeling even more. The form is clearly fleshy but abstract and geometric at the same time. My work represents deconstruction of flesh and construction of real human evolving body.