“Jana Farmanová is a passionate painter. She has developed internally and externally over the course of her roughly 25 years on the scene; she is one of our most successful artists. Painting is not just the work she does; it is the way she grasps and processes the events of her own life and world; the means by which she creates stories and inserts meaning into the complex and sometimes difficult to understand phenomenon that is human life.

In the current exhibition, Farman presents recent work. Gro of the exhibited collection consists of small-format paintings with motifs of everyday life. She does not present the scenes she depicts critically, but rather poeticizes, even monumentalizes everyday activities such as eating cake, sunbathing, tapping on the mobile phone, looking in the mirror… she creates from these banal situations a kind of iconography of the “ordinary life” of (not only) young girls. Striving for empathy, empathizing with the objects of her paintings, understanding and representing the inner experience of other human beings is a typical feature of Farman’s painting. At the same time, not only the artist, but all of us, under the influence of external events, increasingly and painfully feel the preciousness and fragility of ordinary moments, when seemingly “nothing happens”. The painter’s affinity with Buddhist philosophy, which emphasises being in the present, living in the “here and now”, is evident here. Alexandra Tamášová