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Rooted in an interest in speculative narratives, Natalia’s practice examines the slippage between urban and natural environments, the concept of functionality and ritual, and the exploration of the femme/body’s positioning within synthetic surroundings - often with an element of levity. Her practice employs a range of technologies and methods, including video, installation, CGI, performance, sculpture, kinetics and sound.
Natalia often works collaboratively in an effort to build a reciprocal ecosystem with individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds.
Natalia 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.
Rooted in an interest in speculative narratives, Natalia’s practice examines the slippage between urban and natural environments, the concept of functionality and ritual, and the exploration of the femme/body’s positioning within synthetic surroundings - often with an element of levity. Her practice employs a range of technologies and methods, including video, installation, CGI, performance, sculpture, kinetics and sound.
Natalia often works collaboratively in an effort to build a reciprocal ecosystem with individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds.
Natalia 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.
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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:
Camden Art Centre, March 2022
Ongoing:
Camden Art Centre Peer Forum, 2020-2021
TBA21 Academy (https://ocean-archive.org/, https://ocean-archive.org/view/607)
Curatorial project #sanfordvitrine
Past:
Xxijra Hii, London, January 2022
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
Instytut Adama Mickiewicz IAM, residency grant, Venice, 2021
AHRC Grant, 2020
Felix Slade Scholarship, 2013-2015
Shortlisted for New Contemporaries, 2015