Petra Janda: Going Home
20. 12. 2023 – 14. 1. 2024
opening: 19. 12. 2023
Vulvonautka performance was a part of the opening.
performers: Petra Janda, Tomáš Samek, Zuzana Štefková, Anna Tichá
curator: Zuzana Štefková
“She slips a key to the Spaceship into her mouth and feels it all: the seeds, the buds, the growth. A tangle of roots branching wide. She is heavy yet full of bubbling movement, tiny feet, the effervescence of sap. She arrives floating in the state of weightlessness, her tendrils overgrowing the rocket that is within and all around. She is gazing through the leaves to the stars and feels the unborn world touching her. Soon she will be on her way Home.”
Petra Janda (1991) is a multimedia artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts (studio of Tomáš Vaňek and Tomáš Hlavina) and founder of the web platform and database Artbiom.cz. This year she is the finalist of Jindřich Chalupecký Award. She works with natural materials such as paper, clay, ceramics, straw and hay. Her approach combines the thinking of contemporary ecofeminism with myth and spirituality, drawing on female corporeality, traditional crafts and natural processes and shapes.
The alphabet of mothering as experienced by the Vulvonaut before she sets on her journey through the Milky Way:
Countdown begins:
10
Archetype
Belly (Budding)
Cyclic Time
9
Creativity
Day-and-Night
Ecstasy (Extraterrestrial)
8
Frustration
Gestationality (Growth)
Home
7
Imagination
Jouissance
Knowledge
6
Love – Life – Leaves
Mhmmmmmm… Milk! (Mystery)
Night-and-Day
5
Outside – Inside
Pink noise (Placenta)
Queering
4
Relatedness (Resonance)
Sleep deprivation
Shadows
3
Trembling
Ultimate
Varicose veins
2
Wellness
eXistence
Yes!
1
Blast off!
The program of the Jeleni Gallery is possible through kind support of Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Council, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, City District Prague 7,
GESTOR – The Union for the Protection of Authorship
Media partners: ArtMap, artalk.cz and jlbjlt.net
