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Natalia Janula is a London based Polish multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of mixed media assemblages, sculpture, video, photography, speculative wearables, CGI and performance. Her works explores the female body, the natural world and material phenomenology. It equivocates between the organic and synthetic, often simulating entities whose physiologies include both technological and biological components.
Janula works with silicone, latex imprints, jesmonite, 3D prints in sandstone, ceramics and found objects a to create sculptural forms as assemblages of natural objects and their replicants. Parts salvaged from old, discarded electronics, rusted tools, cheap consumer household items – re- purposed, re-cast, re-worked. Embossing, solid cast design, generating rubber mother molds, imprinting and replicating. As part of this CGI elements are explored, bringing objects’ materiality into the contemporary digital realm.’
Crossing the boundaries of the intimate and alien, her work can be at once comforting and unnerving, desirable yet repulsive. A perturbing humour twists and winds pervasively throughout.
In recent work, Januła has been studying the Japanese art of Ikebana as a means of exploring an imagined ‘physiological landscape’, which has permeated both her sculptural and moving image work. Her current short moving image compilation, Rhizome, I comments on functionality, ecology and hybrid objects while performing in a miniature electro-mechanical circus.
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Natalia Janula is a London based Polish multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of mixed media assemblages, sculpture, video, photography, speculative wearables, CGI and performance. Her works explores the female body, the natural world and material phenomenology. It equivocates between the organic and synthetic, often simulating entities whose physiologies include both technological and biological components.
Janula works with silicone, latex imprints, jesmonite, 3D prints in sandstone, ceramics and found objects a to create sculptural forms as assemblages of natural objects and their replicants. Parts salvaged from old, discarded electronics, rusted tools, cheap consumer household items – re- purposed, re-cast, re-worked. Embossing, solid cast design, generating rubber mother molds, imprinting and replicating. As part of this CGI elements are explored, bringing objects’ materiality into the contemporary digital realm.’
Crossing the boundaries of the intimate and alien, her work can be at once comforting and unnerving, desirable yet repulsive. A perturbing humour twists and winds pervasively throughout.
In recent work, Januła has been studying the Japanese art of Ikebana as a means of exploring an imagined ‘physiological landscape’, which has permeated both her sculptural and moving image work. Her current short moving image compilation, Rhizome, I comments on functionality, ecology and hybrid objects while performing in a miniature electro-mechanical circus.
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Natalia Janula was born in Kozienice, Poland and currently works between UK and Poland. She/they graduated with MFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2015.
Upcoming:
Xxijra Hii, London, January 2022
Camden Art Centre, March 2022
Dkuk London, August 2022
Ongoing:
Camden Art Centre Peer Forum, 2020-2021
TBA21 Academy (https://ocean-archive.org/, https://ocean-archive.org/view/607)
Past:
Thorp Stavri, London, October 2021
Prometheus project , Canada, August 2021
Artsterritory residency, Venice, September 2021
IA Artist in residency - online, November 2021
Collective Ending, London, April 2021
Greedy Rigor, Belsize Park, April 2021
Urban Antibodies, Weekend, Athens, Nov 2020
The Girls with gray faces had hearts of different colors, Lodz, July 2020
Laminar Bodyies, Final Hot desert, Utah, May, 2020
Potion Room, Subsidiary Projects, London, February 2020
Between Aeaea and the Rocks of Scylla, The Horse Hospital, November 2019
Temporary realities, Chalton Gallery, London, October 2019
Absinthe §2 & Collective Ending & Georgia Stephenson, London, August 2019
you’re mulchy green you’re verdant matter, Slade School of Fine Art, London, August, 2019
Worm Show, Chalton Gallery, London, July 2019
Domestic landscape, Jupiter Woods, residency, London February 2019
Most Dismal Swamp, Gossamer Fog, London, September 2018
Real Myth, V23, The Old Biscuit Factory, August 2018
Forced Collaboration, Online platform/project, July 2018
Swallowed her agile tongue, Crown Point Studios, Glasgow, January 2018
Disco Landscapes, Raven Row, London, November 2017
Some sort of fossil, CGP London Gallery, November 2017
Skin dance, Gossamer Fog, London, August 2017
Fleshy Wearables, Changing room, London May 2017
Glasgow Sculpture Studios Residency, March 2017
Fleshy Bits, Hearts Lane Project Space, London, June 2017
Prjkt Mon:Dust, Safehouse, Peckham, London, July 2016
Substance Rift, House of Vans, London, May 2016
Cacophonia, Peckham Pelican, London, March 2016
Objects from the temperate Palm House, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh, January 2016
Beep Bleep Deep Sleep. Solo show, Union Gallery, London, July 2015
Slade School of Fine Art MA Graduate Show, June 2015
Shortlist, Awards and Scholarships
AHRC Grant, 2020
Felix Slade Scholarship, 2013-2015
Shortlisted for New Contemporaries, 2015