Jana
Memory research represents a strategic moment in the work of Jana Machatová. She began the search of her personal history when her children were still little. And circling back, she returned to her own childhood. She began to present situations imprinted in family albums in laminated photographs and layers of silver sheets. Her jewelry pieces are a type of time-lapse documentary—traces of memories following stories and people from her personal life. Her distinct layering principle also shows an emphasis on the “fluidity” of time at a formal level, or in other words, on the fact that a memory map is based on inserted and peeled off bonds and relations. Montage, manipulation and composition navigate her in the unceasing examination of her identity and the times which represent her.
—Viera Kleinová